show me the translation that has the erroneous "then" added to it.
my abilities, as you put it, caught your erroneous "then"
“For
the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air:
and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.”
1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 KJV
Paul’s explaining that because it’s what Jesus taught
that is Paul expounding on this day this is “ how “ well Be caught up to him that day
“And then shall they see
the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.
And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost
part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.”
Mark 13:26-27
it’s those who have gone beforehand in the heavens and also those who are alive the day he returns to earth whatever believers remain of the church alive on earth . Gathered all together from Enoch to the last this same day
“
So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just, And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.”
Matthew 13:49-50 KJV
this same day
“
Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.”
Matthew 24:29-30 KJV
this same day
“When
the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: And
before him shall be gathered all nations: and
he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand,
Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
..Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand,
Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:”
Matthew 25:31-34, 41
By this same word of judgement that could be life if believed now being judged as the living
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.”
John 5:24 KJV
Rather than the living dead who rejected him
Marvel not at this: for
the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.”
John 5:25, 27-29
and refused to believe his word
“He that
rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.”
John 12:48 KJV
everyone who will ever be born from Christ forward has the same opportunity to be saved until the end of the world when he returns anyone who puts thier faith in him will be saved in the end
but no one is going to be taken from the tribulation until it’s time ends and he returns