Jesus, Faithful to His Word

Jesus

faith­ful to His word

Shall with a shout des­cend;

All Heav­en’s host their glo­ri­ous Lord

Shall pom­pous­ly at­tend;

Christ shall come with dread­ful noise

Lightnings swift

and thun­ders loud;

With the great arch­an­gel’s voice

And with the trump of God.

First the dead in Christ shall rise;

Then we that yet re­main

Shall be caught up to the skies

And see our Lord again:

We shall meet Him in the air

All rapt up to Heav­en shall be

See

and love

and praise Him there

To all eter­ni­ty.

Who can tell the hap­pi­ness

This glo­ri­ous hope af­fords?

Joy un­ut­tered we pos­sess

In these re­viv­ing words;

Happy while on earth we breathe

Mightier bliss or­dained to know;

Trampling up­on sin and death

To the third Heav­en we go.