The voice of the archangel

1112 11th P. M. 76, 76, 77, 76.
— With the voice of the archangel.

JESUS, faithful to his word,
   Shall with a shout descend:
   All heaven’s host their glorious Lord
   Shall joyfully attend:
   Christ shall come with dreadful noise.
   Lightnings swift, and thunders loud;
   With the great archangel’s voice,
   And with the trump of God.

2 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;
   Find, and love, and praise him there,
   To all eternity.

3 Who can tell the happiness
   This glorious hope affords?
   Joy unutter’d we possess
   In these reviving words:
   Happy while on earth we breathe;
   Mightier bliss ordain’d to know:
   Trampling down sin, hell, and death,
   To the third heaven we go.
                         Charles Wesley
                         Methodist Episcopal hymnal (1870 edition)