[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

BUMP for later — scanning it — the points in the article seem pretty sound doctrine to me. IIRC, the rapture theology as it is taught nowadays, was not part of church doctrine until recent times.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Amen.

I like your homepage.

[xzins]

Dispensationalism teaches that Christ will return to the earth in a secret "Rapture" in which all believers will be removed from the earth. This is later followed by the "Second Coming of Christ" which is a distinct and separate event.

The above comment from the article is inaccurate. Dispensationalism does not teach a secret rapture. First, they teach a rapture that everyone will notice (by virtue of missing people.)

Also, pre-trib rapture is more likely to teach a coming in the clouds to rapture the church than is the post-trib rapture group.

Mid-trib rapture folks identify the rapture in the middle of the tribulation and equate it with the time when the 2 witnesses are raptured. That has world wide coverage according to Revelation, but there is no mention of a "coming in clouds."

So, the truth is that only one of three strands will theorize on such a thing. But there is no necessity of it.