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Just to clarify,
I am not denying the “rapture.”
I am not trying to date the “rapture.”

When I said that believers must be taken up, or gathered by the mid-point of Daniel’s 70th week, it is based on 2 Thessalonians 2:1-3, because of the day of the Lord clarification that Paul makes to the church in regard to “the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together to Him,” v. 1, and the book of Daniel. Some synonmyns for “the man of lawlessless” are “the little horn,” “the king” in Daniel 11:36-45; “the abomination of desolation” (described in Daniel 9:27)

The gathering to the Lord mentioned in 2 Thessalonians 2:1-3 refers to those believers who are still alive at the time of His coming to gather them—specifically timed in v. 1-3 of the same passage with reference to the day of the Lord.

Although the rapture (or the gathering of living believers from the earth) is part of the first resurrection, before they are gathered the dead (in Christ) are gathered first—in other words, all those who have trusted Christ for their salvation and life BEFORE His coming and have died—as the passage in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 clearly states. This passage parallels the one in 1 Corinthians 15 that gives the order of the resurrection of believers, and adds details: “16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first. 17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and thus we shall always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.”

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Some notable rapture predictions include the following: 1844 - William Miller predicted Christ would return between March 21, 1843 and March 21, 1844, then revised his prediction, claiming to have miscalculated Scripture, to October 22, 1844. The realization that the predictions were incorrect resulted in a Great Disappointment.

Miller's theology gave rise to the Advent movement. The Baha'is believe that Christ did return as Miller predicted in 1844, with the advent of The Báb, and numerous Miller-like prophetic predictions from many religions are given in William Sears book, Thief in The Night.[55]

1914[56], 1918[57], 1925[58], 1942[59] and 1975[60] - Dates set for the end by the Jehovah's Witnesses 1981 - Chuck Smith predicted that Jesus would probably return by 1981.[61]

1988 - Publication of 88 Reasons why the Rapture is in 1988, by Edgar C. Whisenant.

1989 - Publication of The final shout: Rapture report 1989, by Edgar Whisenant. More predictions by this author appeared for 1992, 1995, and other years.

1992 - Korean group "Mission for the Coming Days" predicted October 28, 1992 as the date for the rapture.[62]

1993 - Seven years before the year 2000. The rapture would have to start to allow for seven years of the Tribulation before the Return in 2000. Multiple predictions.

1994 - Pastor John Hinkle of Christ Church in Los Angeles predicted June 9, 1994. Radio evangelist Harold Camping predicted September 27, 1994.[63]

2011 - Harold Camping's revised prediction has May 21, 2011 as the date of the rapture.[64][65]

2060 - Sir Isaac Newton proposed, based upon his calculations using figures from the book of Daniel, that the Apocalypse could happen no earlier than 2060.[66][67