There is no scriptural basis for this belief; only conjecture, twisting of scriptures and unfounded "leaps of faith".
I am not contesting the validity of the rapture; even though that word is not in the Bible, it is very clear that that is a valid thing.
The second coming of the Lord Jesus and the rapture are simultaneous events, the time of the harvest!
The actual timing of the event should be called the "Pre-Wrath Rapture" because it happens at the 7th trumpet of Revelation just prior to the vials of God's wrath being poured out on the earth.
Matthew 24:29, 30, & 31 lays it out so that even the simple-minded can understand: 29: Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
30: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
31: And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
2006-11-12
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