{"id":36721,"date":"2022-09-13T13:07:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/please-explain-1-thessalonians-416-17-are-the-shout-the-voice-of-the-archangel-the-trump-of-god-the-clouds-and-the-air-literal-or-symbolic\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T13:07:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:07:51","slug":"please-explain-1-thessalonians-416-17-are-the-shout-the-voice-of-the-archangel-the-trump-of-god-the-clouds-and-the-air-literal-or-symbolic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/please-explain-1-thessalonians-416-17-are-the-shout-the-voice-of-the-archangel-the-trump-of-god-the-clouds-and-the-air-literal-or-symbolic\/","title":{"rendered":"Please explain 1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17. Are the shout, the voice of the Archangel, the trump of God, the clouds and the air literal or symbolic?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout<\/strong>, with the voice of the archange<\/strong>l, and with the trump of God <\/strong>and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and<\/em> remain shall be caught up together with them in the<\/strong> clouds<\/strong>, to meet the Lord in the air.” 1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17. This is a symbolic verse. Why do we believe that? Because the return of our Lord is “as a thief <\/strong>in the night,” 1 Thessalonians 5:2. No thief announces his presence with a trumpet! Additionally, our Lord said, “…the world will see me no more<\/strong>…” John 14:19 (ESV). But the world will discern the presence of the Lord by the signs of His return as listed in 1 Thessalonians 4:16.<\/p>\n

A shout.<\/strong> The Greek word, keleusma, is a war-cry shout of encouragement. <\/strong>Jesus, with the voice of the archangel <\/strong>(God’s chief messenger<\/em>), shouts the encouragements of liberty and justice for all<\/strong>. Daniel 12:1 and 4 further explain that during the end times, Michael (Jesus) shall return and bless mankind with “an increase of knowledge<\/strong>.” However, mankind’s increased knowledge is opening their eyes to their rights of justice and liberty. These rightful demands are fast escalating the world into the “time of trouble<\/strong>, such as never was since there was a nation (Armageddon<\/em>).” (Daniel 12:1)<\/p>\n

The trump of God. <\/strong>This trump is the same as the seventh (and last) symbolic trumpet of Revelation 11:15-19, “The seventh angel sounded<\/strong>; and there were great voices<\/strong> in heaven, saying, The kingdom of this world is become the kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever…And the nations were angry<\/strong>, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged…” <\/strong><\/p>\n

The clouds. <\/strong>In this context, clouds picture trouble<\/strong>. Psalm 97:1-6 (NASB), “The LORD reigns, let the earth rejoice; Let the many islands be glad. Clouds and thick darkness<\/strong> surround Him; Righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne. Fire<\/strong> (complete destruction <\/em><\/strong>of the evil systems<\/em>) goes before Him And burns up His adversaries round about. His lightnings<\/strong> (truth, increased knowledge<\/em><\/strong>) lit up the world; The earth saw and trembled.The mountains (kingdoms of this world<\/em>)<\/strong> melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, At the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.The heavens declare His righteousness, And all the peoples have seen<\/strong> (by the <\/em>evidences of His just and righteous reign<\/em><\/strong>) His glory.”<\/p>\n

The Air. <\/strong>Just as clouds symbolize trouble, the air refers to spirit forces around the earth ruling mankind<\/strong>. For example, Satan is called “the prince of the power of the air” in Ephesians 2:2. Thus, both the dead in Christ and afterward faithful Christians will be “be changed…at the last trumpet” (1 Corinthians 15:52) and join our returned Lord to establish God’s kingdom on earth.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“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: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air.” 1 Thessalonians … Continue reading “Please explain 1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17. Are the shout, the voice of the Archangel, the trump of God, the clouds and the air literal or symbolic?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}