Will living believers go ahead of believers who have died at the coming of the Lord?
No. As Paul writes in I Thessalonians 4:15, believers who are alive and remain at the coming of the Lord shall not precede or go ahead of those who have died. The dead in Christ shall rise first, then the living will be changed.
Les explains that the body is placed in the grave, but the soul and spirit of the believer are absent from the body and present with the Lord. At the coming of the Lord, God will bring the departed souls and spirits of believers only from heaven down to the atmosphere. In I Thessalonians 4:15, Paul says that we who are alive and remain shall not precede or go ahead of them who are asleep. The dead in Christ shall rise first. The living will be changed in the twinkling of an eye. The Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God. Those who are resurrected will be brought out of the tomb and reunited with their soul and spirit. So living believers do not go ahead; the dead in Christ rise first.
For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
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Why won't living believers precede those who have died in Christ?
The reason living believers do not precede the dead in Christ is that 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.