VI. How will the resurrection be effected?

The resurrection will be accomplished openly and gloriously, and not secretly nor hastily. It will be far different from that which occurred in relation to certain persons, when Christ rose from the dead. It will take place in the sight of angels, men and devils, and will be a scene of inexpressible joy to the righteous, but of unutterable anguish and horror to the wicked. Christ shall descend from heaven, accompanied by the angels, with a shout, with the voice of the arch-angel, and with the trumpet of God, at whose sound all the dead shall awake and come forth from their graves, and stand before the judgement seat of Jesus Christ. Those who will remain alive until the coming of Christ shall be suddenly changed from a state of mortality to immortality, which change will be to them in the place of death and the resurrection. (Thes. 4:14, 18. 1. Cor. 15:50, 55.)