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THE RESULTS
coming of the Lord, shall in no wise precede them that are fallen asleep. For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven, with ·a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first" (I Thess. 4:15, 16 R. V). Until our Lord comes the bodies of those believers who have passed out of this world before that great event ''sleep in the dust of the earth" (Dan. 12:2), their spirits are unclothed (II Cor. 5:4), they are "absent from the body" and "at home with the Lord" (II Cor. 5:4, 8). But immediately upon the sounding of the trump of God and the accompanying descent of our Lord, these bodies that sleep in the dust of the earth, are raised and the spirits of believers are no longer unclothed, "but clothed upon with our habitation which is from heaven'; (II Cor. 5 :2-4). 2. Following immediately upon the resur rection of the dead in Christ, THE BODIES OF LIVING BELIEVERS SH.A.LL BE CHANGED FROM THEIR PRESENT STATE OF HUMILIATION INTO THE LIKENESS OF THE BODY OF HIS GLORY. The bodies that we now have are not the bodies that we shall have, "We wait
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