What is the Rapture?

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How will the Lord Jesus Christ Return? What does scripture say about the Second Coming? A controversial portion of scripture known as the Rapture describes what happens to the believer, both living and dead, when Jesus returns. The scriptures are I Thessalonians 4:13-18 and I Corinthians 15:50-52, they delineate the details how the believer will be transformed into a resurrected being. (Rapture, Harpzo, Caught Up)

These verses answer several important questions regarding the Second Coming:
1. How does Jesus return for His Church?
2. Is the Second Coming different for believers and non-believers?
3. Is there any hope for those who died without Jesus Christ?
4. Is there a separate program for Old Testament "Saints" and New Testament "Saints"?
5. When do we receive Resurrected bodies?
6. Will we see Jesus?
7. Where will we go after the Resurrection?
8. Is the Rapture Biblical?
9. What will we look like in our resurrected bodies?

The verses below are the subject of this video, please put your questions in the comment section, I will try to respond to each one.

The Coming of the Lord
1Th 4:13 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.
1Th 4:14 For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.
1Th 4:15 For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.
1Th 4:16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
1Th 4:17 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.
1Th 4:18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.

The Resurrection of the Believer
1 Corinthians 15:50-58 ESV
(50) I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
(51) Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
(52) in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.
(53) For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body m

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