<p>4:16 <i>For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first- </i>The Greek for &quot;shout&quot; really means a shout of command. The command in view is for the dead in Christ to rise; we recall the Lord's loud shout to bring forth Lazarus from the dead. &quot;The archangel&quot; is defined in Jude 9 as Michael. The connection is clearly to the prophecy of Dan. 12:1-3, which speaks of the revelation of &quot;Michael&quot; as being at the time the dead are resurrected. &quot;The trumpet of God&quot; is also associated with the Angels at the Lord's return in Mt. 24:31: &quot;He shall send his Angels with a great sound of a trumpet&quot;; see on :14. 1 Cor. 15:52 likewise: &quot;The trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised&quot;. Perhaps there shall be a literal trumpet sound as the first concrete sign of the Lord's return; but the allusion is to the trumpet blasts which called the camp of God to move onwards in the wilderness, and which brought down the walls of Jericho so that God's people could possess the promised land.</p>