They are not out of context. All verses apply to the same subject.
I know this. And your point is?
You personally actually know the NT Bible by heart and so you do not ever copy and paste the Scriptures into your posts? I need to copy and paste the Scriptures that I want to use to make my points because I do not have them memorized word for word.
"Scripture" is words in a Book. Scripture actually cannot "say" anything. It is each person who reads the words in this Book who determines for himself what the words mean. The key to learning the gospel of Jesus Christ is to find out exactly what the author meant for us to know.about Jesus Christ and His Church/Kingdom.
"For
we tell you this by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will surely not go ahead of those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a shout of command, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
[Whoops! According to you they had already risen] Then we who are alive, who are left, will be suddenly caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord."
A few "dead in Christ" did rise at the time of the first resurrection which happened when Jesus died on the cross. This was a Lazarus-type resurrection because these people did not receive resurrected, immortal bodies like Jesus Christ received when He rose from the dead. After Jesus rose from the dead these "risen" people appeared to other people in the city of Jerusalem. When they were finished with their appearances, their bodies returned to their tombs and their spirits returned to God. These people and all the people who followed after them into heaven since that time two thousand years ago are now reigning in heaven with Jesus right now.
Revelation 20:4 The "
a thousand years" is symbolic for the time period between Jesus' resurrection and His second coming. It is not a literal
one thousand years..
Matthew 27:50-54
And Jesus cried again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit.
51 And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom; and the earth shook, and the rocks were split; 52
the tombs also were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, 53 and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many. 54 When the centurion and those who were with him, keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and what took place, they were filled with awe, and said, “Truly this was the Son of God!”
Paul's letter explains that at the end of time when Jesus reappears for His second coming, that all the people who had died and were still faithful to Jesus Christ at the time of their death, "the dead in Christ", will rise from the dead first before Jesus comes back to earth. It is at this time that they will all receive their resurrected, immortal bodies. IOW, their spirits will rejoin their bodies in their graves and reunited once again they will rise from the dead with their new resurrected, immortal bodies and then with Jesus, they will all come back to earth to meet His people who are still alive on earth.
As His people on earth rise up to meet them, they will receive their own resurrected, immortal bodies.
1 Corinthians 15:51-55
Lo! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. 53 For this perishable nature must put on the imperishable, and this mortal nature must put on immortality.
54 When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written:
“Death is swallowed up in victory.”
55 “O death, where is thy victory?
O death, where is thy sting?”