1 Corinthians 15:52

At the last trumpet, in an instant, the dead will be raised and all changed. It matters because Christ's return brings instantaneous resurrection and transformation.

Cross-references · 22

• 1 Th 4:16–17For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,
• Matt 24:31He will send out his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.
• John 5:28Don’t marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs will hear his voice,
• John 5:25Most certainly, I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice; and those who hear will live.
• Isa 27:13It will happen in that day that a great trumpet will be blown; and those who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and those who were outcasts in the land of Egypt, shall come; and they will worship Yahweh in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
• 2 Pet 3:10But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
• 1 Cor 15:42So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown perishable; it is raised imperishable.
• Zech 9:14Yahweh will be seen over them; and his arrow will go flash like lightning; and the Lord Yahweh will blow the trumpet, and will go with whirlwinds of the south.
• Rev 9:13–14The sixth angel sounded. I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar which is before God,
• Ezek 33:6But if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn’t blow the trumpet, and the people aren’t warned, and the sword comes, and take any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.
• 1 Cor 15:50Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can’t inherit God’s Kingdom; neither does the perishable inherit imperishable.
• Isa 18:3All you inhabitants of the world, and you dwellers on the earth, when a banner is lifted up on the mountains, look! When the trumpet is blown, listen!
• Rev 8:2I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.
• Rev 8:13I saw, and I heard an eagle, flying in mid heaven, saying with a loud voice, “Woe! Woe! Woe for those who dwell on the earth, because of the other voices of the trumpets of the three angels, who are yet to sound!”
• Exod 19:16On the third day, when it was morning, there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.
• Ezek 33:3if, when he sees the sword come on the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;
• Exod 20:18All the people perceived the thunderings, the lightnings, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance.
• Ps 73:19How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.
• Num 10:4If they blow just one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves to you.
• Exod 33:5Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell the children of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up into the middle of you for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you.’”
• Num 16:21“Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!”
• Num 16:45“Get away from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!” They fell on their faces.

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