Bible Trivia Quiz | Details About the Lord’s Return | Digging Deeper

Question 1. According to 1 Thessalonians 4, what three sounds will go with the Lord when He comes down from heaven?

Answer: A shout, the voice of the archangel, and the trump of God (1 Thessalonians 4:16).

Context & Exhortation: The church in Thessalonica was young, and some of its members had died. The believers were worried about what would happen to them. Paul wrote to comfort them, “that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope” (4:13).

In the ancient world, a trumpet and a shout often announced the arrival of a king or the start of a great event. Paul uses that picture to show that the Lord’s return will be public, powerful, and unmistakable.

Jesus also spoke of this moment: “he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet” (Matthew 24:31). His coming will not be hidden or quiet.

Paul ends the passage, “comfort one another with these words” (4:18). Christians grieve, but not without hope. And we can share this hope today with someone we know who is grieving.

Question 2. When the Lord comes down from heaven, which group did Paul say will rise first?

Answer: The dead in Christ. Then believers still alive will be caught up together with them (1 Thessalonians 4:16–17).

Context & Exhortation: Some believers in Thessalonica feared that those who had already died would miss the Lord’s coming. Paul assured them that the living “shall not prevent them which are asleep” (4:15). 

In the King James wording, “prevent” means to go ahead of. Paul uses the word “asleep” (4:15) for believers who have died. Sleep is not permanent; it is followed by waking. 

No believer is forgotten, and those who die in Christ will be first in line. After the dead in Christ rise, the living “shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air” (4:17).

Paul then gives the greatest comfort of all: “And so shall we ever be with the Lord” (4:17). 

If you have lost a loved one who knew the Lord, take heart. You will see them again.

Question 3. How quickly did Paul say believers will be changed at the last trumpet?

Answer: “In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye” (1 Corinthians 15:52).

Context & Exhortation: Paul wrote this at the close of his great chapter on the resurrection. Some in Corinth doubted that the dead would be raised at all. Paul calls the change a mystery: “We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed” (15:51).

The twinkling of an eye is the fastest movement the human body makes. When the Lord returns, the change will be instant. There will be no time in that moment to prepare.

Paul says, “this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality” (15:53). Then the saying will come true, “Death is swallowed up in victory” (15:54).

Because the change will happen in a moment, readiness has to happen now. I encourage us today: don’t put off this relationship we must have with God for another day. Get ready now, while there is time.

Question 4. After Jesus was taken up into heaven, what did the two men in white tell the disciples about His return?

Answer: He would come back “in like manner” as they had seen Him go into heaven (Acts 1:10–11).

Context & Exhortation: Forty days after His resurrection, Jesus was taken up from the mount called Olivet (1:12), “and a cloud received him out of their sight” (1:9). 

Two men in white stood by the disciples and asked, “why stand ye gazing up into heaven?” (1:11).

Jesus left visibly and personally, and the angels promised He would return the same way. Their question also carried a lesson: the disciples were not meant to stand and stare, but to get on with what Jesus had told them to do.

Centuries earlier, Zechariah had prophesied, “his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives” (Zechariah 14:4). The disciples went back to Jerusalem and “continued with one accord in prayer and supplication” (1:14).

We are also waiting for His return. How are we waiting? Are we only watching the skies, or are we praying, serving, and sharing the gospel while we wait?

Question 5. Revelation 1 says every eye will see Jesus when He comes with clouds. Which group does John single out?

Answer: “They also which pierced him” (Revelation 1:7).

Context & Exhortation: John wrote Revelation while exiled on the island of Patmos. 

Right at the start of the book, he announces Christ’s return and adds, “all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him” (1:7). His coming will be public, and no one will miss it.

John singles out those who pierced Him. The One who was rejected and crucified will come back as King, and those who rejected Him will see Him again.

Zechariah had prophesied, “they shall look upon me whom they have pierced” (Zechariah 12:10). John records that this was fulfilled at the cross: “They shall look on him whom they pierced” (John 19:37).

Everyone will one day see Jesus, either as Saviour or as Judge. The question is: which category of persons do we want to be in?

If we want to see Jesus as our Saviour, we have to make peace with Him now, while there is time, and pray for those who still reject Him.

Question 6. According to Philippians 3, what will Christ do to our bodies when He returns?

Answer: He will change our lowly body so that it is made like His glorious body (Philippians 3:21).

Context & Exhortation: Philippi was a Roman colony, and its people were proud of their Roman citizenship. 

Paul tells the believers there that “our conversation is in heaven” (3:20). In the King James Version, “conversation” here means citizenship. Paul is saying that our true home is heaven, and that is where we are waiting for our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, to come from.

Our bodies age, get sick, hurt, and eventually fail. Paul calls them our lowly bodies, but he says that is not the final word.

Paul describes the resurrection body to the Corinthians this way: “It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power” (1 Corinthians 15:43). What is weak now will be made strong.

Whatever our bodies are going through right now, whether pain, illness, or age, a better body is coming. We can take comfort in that hope, and live today as a citizen of heaven.

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