one could want that we are dealing with a public event, one announced not only by a loud command, as on a battlefield,54 and the voice of the archangel (see Jude 9; 1 Enoch 20:1–7; 4 Ezra 4.36), but also by the trumpet call of God, though these may be three ways of referring to the same sound.55 The images are martial, as if Jesus were summoning his army. The meeting place is said to take place in the clouds or in the air, not in heaven. Paul considers the dead in Christ to be persons who can be