“Sounds like two Second Comings.”
Correct. When Christ returns to earth at Mount Olives, at that time according to scripture he separates the sheep from the goats from the four corners of the earth. If that’s the same event as the gathering in the air of the Church, the sheep would be gone in the air already, there wouldn’t be any left on earth to gather. Clearly the gathering in the air is for the saints of this age/administration and is a separate event from Christ’s return to Mount Olives. Plus, the date of Christ’s return to Mount Olives will be calculated and well known, 1260 days from the Abomination of Desolation, or halfway through the great tribulation, which is hardly like the “thief in the night” or the “twinkling of an eye” description of Christ’s return in Thessalonians and Corinthians.
Can you imagine meeting an early Christian martyr in Heaven and they ask you how you were martyred and you answer “Well I was in the WalMart shopping center and this lady ran into me with her basket full of food and .....well, here I am”