[15] For we say by the word of the Lord, that which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord prevent them which are asleep. [16] 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: [17] Then which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so ever with the Lord.