He doesn’t even understand the difference between the rapture and the second coming of Christ and so has the Protestant/Evangelical position wrong out of the gate.
There’s not much he can say now that would give him any credibility.
To quote Chuck Missler, “the Rapture is the most preposterous theory ever put forth...the only thing it has going for it is that it is unquestionably correct.”
Yes Staples is confused. When people are full of themselves this tends to happen.
No doubt Tim Staples at one point did believe in the Rapture. His failed Protestantism has, sadly, obligated him to swallow whatever the magesterium proclaims at any point of time. St. Paul was who revealed the mystery of the Rapture of the church before the Tribulation. It’s not as if nobody ever heard of such a thing before the Reformation!