1 Thessalonians 4:6-17
16 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:
17 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.
What does it mean when the "dead in Christ" shall rise. I have heard this all my life that the graves will give up the dead, dead bones? dirt? dust? ashes? Why will anything here on earth be of any value on that day? Our fleshly bodies are temporary and will have no place in heaven. So what will come out of the grave?