For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to rise.
Christ will not send an angel but descend Himself to complete His mediatorial work and judge the world. The shout, the archangel's proclamation, and the trumpet's blast will shake heavens and earth with such terror and majesty that all earthly solemnities fade before it.
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Christ Himself descends in full majesty, not by deputy. The shout is a victorious war cry, the archangel's voice distinct from it, the trumpet blast God's usual accompaniment to His glory. These three sounds together summon the elect: first the dead rise, then the living are caught up.
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The word for shout means that encouragement mariners give when they row together with one voice, pulling as one. Such a united cry shall accompany the Lord's descent, confirmed by the archangel's voice and God's trumpet.
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