Eight Reasons Why Jesus Is Coming - by Bro. Ken Roark 1994

The Eight Reasons:

1. To resurrect the Saints.

2. To rapture the saved.

3. To reward the servents.

4. To restore the seed of Abraham,

5. To reveal His strength.

6. To revenge sin.

7. To rule as sovereign.

8. He is coming to redeem the scriptures.

[Note: Verses and commentary extracted using http://www.wordsearchbible.com/]
1 Thessalonians 4:13 (KJV)

13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

Remember the hope of the resurrection

Notes for 4:13
The Thessalonians were wondering why many of their fellow believers had fallen asleep (died) and what would happen to them when Christ returned. Paul wanted the Thessalonians to understand that death is not the end of the story. When Christ returns, all believers — dead and alive — will be reunited, never to suffer or die again.
Life Application Study Bible.
NOT TO SORROW UNDULY FOR THE DEATH OF GODLY RELATIONS AND FRIENDS, CONSIDERING THE GLORIOUS RESURRECTION OF THEIR BODIES AT CHRIST'S SECOND COMING. (4:13-18)

Here is comfort for the relations and friends of those who die in the Lord. Grief for the death of friends is lawful; we may weep for our own loss, though it may be their gain. Christianity does not forbid, and grace does not do away, our natural affections. Yet we must not be excessive in our sorrows; this is too much like those who have no hope of a better life. Death is an unknown thing, and we know little about the state after death; yet the doctrines of the resurrection and the second coming of Christ, are a remedy against the fear of death, and undue sorrow for the death of our Christian friends; and of these doctrines we have full assurance. It will be some happiness that all the saints shall meet, and remain together for ever; but the principal happiness of heaven is to be with the Lord, to see him, live with him, and enjoy him for ever. We should support one another in times sorrow; not deaden one another's spirits, or weaken one another's hands. And this may be done by the many lessons to be learned from the resurrection of the dead, and the second coming of Christ. What! comfort a man by telling him he is going to appear before the judgment-seat of God! Who can feel comfort from those words? That man alone with whose spirit the Spirit of God bears witness that his sins are blotted out, and the thoughts of whose heart are purified by the Holy Spirit, so that he can love God, and worthily magnify his name. We are not in a safe state unless it is thus with us, or we are desiring to be so.
Matthew Henry Concise Bible Commentary.
1 Thessalonians 4:17 (KJV)
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.