{"id":165900,"date":"2026-05-31T04:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T04:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/1-thessalonians-416-17-niv-for-the-lord-himself-will-come-down\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T04:04:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T04:04:49","slug":"1-thessalonians-416-17-niv-for-the-lord-himself-will-come-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/1-thessalonians-416-17-niv-for-the-lord-himself-will-come-down\/","title":{"rendered":"1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 NIV \u2013 For the Lord himself will come down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p> <span id=\"en-NIV-29620\" class=\"text 1Thess-4-16\"><sup class=\"versenum\">16 <\/sup>Because the Lord himself will descend from heaven,<sup class=\"crossreference\" data-cr=\"#cen-NIV-29620A\" data-link=\"(&lt;a href=&quot;#cen-NIV-29620A&quot; title=&quot;See cross-reference A&quot;&gt;A&lt;\/a&gt;)\">(<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"#cen-NIV-29620A\" title=\"See cross-reference A\">A<\/a>)<\/sup> With a high command, with the voice of the archangel<sup class=\"crossreference\" data-cr=\"#cen-NIV-29620B\" data-link=\"(&lt;a href=&quot;#cen-NIV-29620B&quot; title=&quot;See cross-reference B&quot;&gt;B&lt;\/a&gt;)\">(<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"#cen-NIV-29620B\" title=\"See cross-reference B\">b<\/a>)<\/sup> And with the call of God&#8217;s trumpet,<sup class=\"crossreference\" data-cr=\"#cen-NIV-29620C\" data-link=\"(&lt;a href=&quot;#cen-NIV-29620C&quot; title=&quot;See cross-reference C&quot;&gt;C&lt;\/a&gt;)\">(<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"#cen-NIV-29620C\" title=\"See cross-reference C\">C<\/a>)<\/sup> And the dead in Christ will rise first.<sup class=\"crossreference\" data-cr=\"#cen-NIV-29620D\" data-link=\"(&lt;a href=&quot;#cen-NIV-29620D&quot; title=&quot;See cross-reference D&quot;&gt;D&lt;\/a&gt;)\">(<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"#cen-NIV-29620D\" title=\"See cross-reference D\">D<\/a>)<\/sup><\/span> <span id=\"en-NIV-29621\" class=\"text 1Thess-4-17\"><sup class=\"versenum\">17 <\/sup>After that we who are still alive and remain<sup class=\"crossreference\" data-cr=\"#cen-NIV-29621E\" data-link=\"(&lt;a href=&quot;#cen-NIV-29621E&quot; title=&quot;See cross-reference E&quot;&gt;E&lt;\/a&gt;)\">(<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"#cen-NIV-29621E\" title=\"See cross-reference E\">E<\/a>)<\/sup> will be caught up with them in the clouds<sup class=\"crossreference\" data-cr=\"#cen-NIV-29621F\" data-link=\"(&lt;a href=&quot;#cen-NIV-29621F&quot; title=&quot;See cross-reference F&quot;&gt;F&lt;\/a&gt;)\">(<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"#cen-NIV-29621F\" title=\"See cross-reference F\">F<\/a>)<\/sup> To meet the Lord in the air. And thus we will be with the Lord<sup class=\"crossreference\" data-cr=\"#cen-NIV-29621G\" data-link=\"(&lt;a href=&quot;#cen-NIV-29621G&quot; title=&quot;See cross-reference G&quot;&gt;G&lt;\/a&gt;)\">(<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"#cen-NIV-29621G\" title=\"See cross-reference G\">Yes<\/a>)<\/sup> forever.<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16 Because the Lord himself will descend from heaven,(A) With a high command, with the voice of the archangel(b) And with the call of God&#8217;s trumpet,(C) And the dead in Christ will rise first.(D) 17 After that we who are still alive and remain(E) will be caught up with them in the clouds(F) To meet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":134575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[525,155,29004],"class_list":["post-165900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scriptures","tag-lord","tag-niv","tag-thessalonians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165902,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165900\/revisions\/165902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}