1 Thessalonians 4 - Scofield Reference Notes

caught up

Not church saints only, but all bodies of the saved, of whatever dispensation, are included in the first resurrection

( See Scofield) - (1 Corinthians 15:52)

as here described, but it is peculiarly the "blessed hope" of the Church.

Compare (Matthew 24:42); (Matthew 25:13); (Luke 12:36-48); (Acts 1:11); (Philippians 3:20); (Philippians 3:21); (Titus 2:11-13).