1. Going Up!

2. 1. Enoch Going Up! Genesis 5:22-24
22 After he [Enoch] begot Methuselah, Enoch walked with God three hundred years, and had sons and daughters.
23 So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty five years.
24 And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.

3. 1. Enoch Going Up! Hebrews 11:5-6
5 By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, “and was not found, because God had taken him”; for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must first believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

4. 2. Elijah Going Up! 2 Kings 2:1-18
11 Then it happened, as they continued on and talked, that suddenly a chariot of fire appeared with horses of fire, and separated the two of them; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
12 And Elisha saw it, and he cried out, “My father, my father, the chariot of Israel and its horsemen.”

5. 2. Elijah Going Up! Malachi 4:5
11 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of t he Lord.

6. 2. Elijah Going Up! Matthew 16:28 – 17:11
2 His [Jesus] face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light
3 And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with them.
4 Then Peter answered and said to Jesus, “Lord it is good for us to be here; if you wish, let us make here three tabernacles: one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”

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3. Jesus
Mark 16:19
19 So then, after the Lord had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

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3. Jesus
Luke 24:50-51
50 And He led them out as far as Bethany and He lifted up His hands and blessed them.
51 Now it came to pass, while He blessed them, that He was parted from them and carried up into heaven.

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3. Jesus
Acts 1:1-11
9 Now when He had spoken these things, while they watched, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight.

10. 4. Church Saints Going Up! John 14:1-6
2 I go to prepare a place for you.
3 And if I go to prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.

11. 4. Church Saints Going Up! 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.

12. 4. Church Saints Going Up! 2 Thessalonians 2:1-2
“Now brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him we ask you not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as from us, as though the day of Christ had come.”

13. 5. All Other Saints Going Up! Tribulation Saints (Revelation 20:4-6)
4 Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshipped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

14. 5. All Other Saints Going Up! O.T Saints (Daniel 12:1-2)
1 At that time Michael shall stand up, the great prince who stands watch over the sons of your people; and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation, even to that time. And at that time your people shall be delivered, every one who is found written in the book.
2 And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, some to shame and everlasting contempt.

15. 5. All Other Saints Going Up! O.T Saints (Isaiah 26:19)
19 Your dead shall live; together with my dead body they shall rise.

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5. All Other Saints
Millennial Saints

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John 11:25-26
25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live.
26 And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?”

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