Which passage describes the order of events at Christ's second coming, including the resurrection of the righteous and the catching away of the living?

• A. Acts 1:9-11
• B. Revelation 20:4-6
• C. 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
• D. Daniel 12:2

Answer: (C)

When Christ returns, the sequence of events for believers is laid out clearly: the Lord will descend, the dead in Christ will rise first, and then those who are alive and remain 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. This directly describes both the resurrection of the righteous and the catching away of the living in the correct order, which is exactly what the question asks. The other passages touch on related eschatological themes—one describes Jesus’ ascension, another details the Millennium and a related resurrection, and another prophesies a general end-time resurrection—yet they do not present this specific sequence of events at the second coming.