And the four living creatures ... never cease to say,

"Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!"

(Revelation 4:8)

"Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into Heaven? This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into Heaven, will come in the same way as you saw Him go into Heaven."

(Acts 1:11)

And when He had said these things, as they were looking on, He was lifted up, and a cloud took Him out of their sight.

(Acts 1:9)

Death is swallowed up in victory.

O death, where is your victory?

O death, where is your sting?

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

(1 Corinthians 11:54-56)

Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.

(1 Corinthians 15:51-52)

What you sow does not come to life unless it dies....

What you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel ...

But God gives it a body as He has chosen.

(1 Corinthians 15:36-38)

The last enemy to be destroyed is death.

(1 Corinthians 15:26)

For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet.

(1 Corinthians 15:25)

But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

(1 Corinthians 15:20)

If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.

If in this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.

(1 Corinthians 15:17-19)