Sleeping

A look into Thessalonian 4:15 - Judgment or Salvation?

SLEEP, ASLEEP: THE CHURCH IN TRIBULATION?

Mt 25:5-6 While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and SLEPT.

Mt 26:40 And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them ASLEEP, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not **watch with me one hour**?

Mt 26:43 And he came and found them ASLEEP again: for their eyes were heavy.

Mr 13:35-36 **Watch ye therefore**: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:… Lest coming –suddenly-- he find you SLEEPING.

1Th 5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then --sudden-- destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

Isa 29:10 For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of DEEP SLEEP, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he COVERED.

1Co 15:17-18 And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins… Then they also which are fallen ASLEEP in Christ are perished.

2Pe 3:4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell ASLEEP, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

Job 33:15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when DEEP SLEEP falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;

Pr 19:15 Slothfulness casteth into a DEEP SLEEP; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

RESURRECTION: REDEMPTION OF THE BODY?

Joh 11:24 Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.

Joh 11:25 Jesus said unto her, I AM the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were DEAD, yet shall he live:

So 7:9 And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are ASLEEP to speak.

Joh 5:28 Marvel not at this: for the **hour is coming**, in the which all that are IN THE GRAVES shall hear his voice,

1Co 15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all SLEEP, but we shall all be changed,

Mt 25:5-6 While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and SLEPT… And at **midnight** there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.

FIRST RESURRECTION: ELECT ARE RISEN IN CHRIST?

1Th 4:16 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*:

Re 22:13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the *FIRST* and the LAST.

Re 20:5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the *FIRST* resurrection.

Re 20:6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the *FIRST* resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

1Co 15:20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the FIRSTfruits of them that SLEPT.

PREVENTING THOSE THAT SLEEP: UNSAVED WHICH DO NOT RISE?

1Th 4:13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are ASLEEP, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have NO HOPE.

Job 14:12 So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their SLEEP.

Eph 2:12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having NO HOPE, and without God in the world:

1Th 4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which SLEEP in Jesus will God bring with him.

1Th 4:15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive {} remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are ASLEEP.

1Th 4:16 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*:

1Th 4:17 Then we which are alive {} remain shall be caught up together with *HIM* in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. (Hebrew Parallelism?)

Mt 25:6 And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to *meet HIM*.

PREVENTING: COME UNTO, NOT ATTAIN…

1Th 4:15 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 <5348> not prevent <5348> them which are asleep.

Mt 12:28 But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come <5348> unto you.

Lu 11:20 But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come <5348> upon you.

Ro 9:31 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath <5348> not attained <5348> to the law of righteousness.

2Co 10:14 For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come <5348> as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ:

Php 3:16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained <5348>, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.

1Th 2:16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come <5348> upon them to the uttermost.

PREVENTING: SALVATION? (06923 VS 5348)

Job 3:12 Why did the knees prevent <06923> me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

Ps 59:10 The God of my mercy shall prevent <06923> me: God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies.

Ps 79:8 O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent <06923> us: for we are brought very low.

Ps 88:13 But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent <06923> thee.

Ps 119:148 Mine eyes prevent <06923> the {} watches, that I might meditate in thy word.

Am 9:10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent <06923> us.

1Th 4:15 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 <5348> them which are asleep.

CONCLUSION: OPEN TO FEEDBACK AND CORRECTION