Oh, Sing The Blessed Hope

"For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud cry
of summons, with the shout of an archangel, and with the blast of
the trumpet of God.  And those who have departed in this life
in Christ will rise first.

Then we, the living ones who remain on the earth, shall 
simultaneously be caught up along with the resurrected dead
in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so always
through the eternity of the eternities we shall be with the Lord!

Therefore comfort and encourage one another with these words."
(1Thessalonians 4:16-18)

Beautiful Clouds

Ksenya Verse

Russian- born American artist

Image courtesy/My Modern Met.com

 Oh, sing the blessed hope, ye saints!

To us who're now alive:

Before in death the body faints

Our rapture may arrive.

Those laid in dust shall wake and sing,

Who now thro' Jesus sleep;

For God with Him will surely bring

The saints for whom we weep.

And as Thy coming, Lord, draws night.

Caught up in clouds we'll sing,

"O grave, where is thy victory?

O death, where is thy sting?

"No whirlwind's force a passage rends

For one loved saint alone;

The Lord Himself from Heav'n descends

And takes up all His own."

"Oh, Sing The Blessed Hope"
(1911)
Author Unknown