What does Titus 2:13 mean?

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(04-29-2009 02:46 PM)Vic Wrote:  If the 'rapture' or second coming is your blessed hope, do those who have physically died before that event takes place, lose hope or have lost hope?

No, for the dead in Christ shall rise first. Being dead does not exclude one from the rapture, which, BTW I now take to be the first resurrection, happening AT the second coming not before it