1st Thes,4:9-18 9 ¶ Now as to brotherly love, you have no need for me to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another. 10 For you also do it toward the brothers in all Macedonia. But, brothers, we exhort you to abound more. 11 And eagerly aspiring to be quiet, and to do your own things, and to work with your own hands, as we enjoined you, 12 that you may walk becomingly toward the ones outside, and that you may have need of nothing. 13 ¶ But I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about the ones having fallen asleep, that you not grieve, as the rest also, the ones not having hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also will God bring with Him all the ones having fallen asleep through Jesus. 15 For we say this to you in the Word of the Lord, that we the living who remain to the coming of the Lord will not at all go before the ones having fallen asleep. 16 Because the Lord Himself shall come down from Heaven with a commanding shout of an archangel’s voice, and with God’s trumpet. And the dead ones in Christ will rise again first. 17 Then we who remain alive will be caught up together with them in the clouds to a meeting with the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord. 18 So, then, comfort each other with these words. The DEAD must RISE! We all know the story of Christ (Jesus), his birth, his life and his death. But few there are who still know his purpose. Some say “he was a sacrificial lamb”, as though God required some sort of payment for our sins to justify our salvation. I.E. ; he was punished in our place. This is the greatest of lies. He was sent to reveal God, the Father of us all, to us, his children. And in so doing, as one who gives up his life to save another, he sacrificed his life on a cross. This he did willingly, so that we might be set free from the bonds of darkness, born of lies snd ignorance and that we might have life more abundantly. But great men of power and authority who enjoyed their place in the world saw him as a threat to thier establishment, because their power was founded upon the ignorance of those who were subject to them. However, Christ (Jesus), in spite of their efforts, succeeded in revealing God to the World, both before and after his death. Before; in word to them not poisoned by greed and selfishness, in whom the Love of God was present and after; through his death and resurrection, by breaking through the hardness of the hearts of many, who’s love for the truth exceeded their love for themselves. These were the ressurected ones who walked the streets of Jerusalem apon his death. Signs and wonders followed them who spoke the truth, as a witness by God, our Father, to their testimony. And thus was established the one true church (The Body of Christ).The Body of Christ In the days after the establishment of the one true church, the powers and principalities of the time persecuted the church. And others, seekng an opportunity to establish power for themselves went about preaching ignorance and lies that they might, through fear and all manner of deceitfullness, gather to themselves the ignorant who were seeking to save themselves from the coming desolation. All the while the true Christians, who walked in the way and who's faith was never blind, we’re being persecuted to extinction for holding fast the truth they could not deny. Nor could you if you knew it!
The powers of the time, having taken hold of the Truth once given to us by our Lord Jesus Christ, took hold of the truth and polluted it, establishing themselves among the ignorant as the one true church and now many churches, A grand deception of vain power and glory which continues even to this day. A people ever learning and yet never learning the truth and foundation of our faith, handing down by tradition their misinterpretation and ignorance from generation to generation. These are the ones, not knowing the TRUTH, yet believing, who are; The Dead in Christ. The Dead in Christ They sleep, not knowing the Truth and not knowing the Father, yet by tradition proclaim and practice a false knowledge of God, that is not the knowledge Christ (Jesus) had once revealed to us in the beginning, but a fabrication compiled through interpretation from the remnant of what had survived Him. (The New Testament) The Anti-Christ’s By their interpretations and misrepresentations, both deliberate and in ignorance, they’ve created an image of God according to their own image and in their own likeness, transforming themselves into messengers of light (truth) yet being in the bonds of darkness they struggle to understand. Those, who in the name of God speak as though from God, so as to deceive the children of the world can never be forgiven, but the ignorant having been deceived, shall be and theirs will be a testimony to the World, of the Truth, and of our Father. The Truth There is a book in the Bible which lays the foundation upon which all else was and is built. It contains the revelation of God and the message once delivered by our Lord, Savior and Brother Jesus Christ to us all. It is; the First Epistle of John 1st John 4:9 States, "By this was revealed the Love of God in us"! Not, among us or with us but "in us"! Below is The Message of Christ, witnessed by John, simply written so that any can understand. Anything spoken or written which is contrary to it is a lie. For the Kingdom of God and even God himself is in you and bears witness to the Truth. A SURE FOUNDATION, WHICH CANNOT BE SHAKEN. The Message of Christ! (Seal of God) Wherefore, WITNESS ONE TO ANOTHER, what is and is not of God!