[Elsie]

Darby is the guy who came up with the whole “rapture” thing, by the way...

 

Oh??

 

1 Thessalonians 4:16-18
 16.  For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 
 17.  After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.
 18.  Therefore encourage each other with these words.

[B-Chan]

That’s the Second Coming, which will occur at the end of time.

The Rapture is sort of a “Coming 2.5”.

You’ll notice the Scripture says nothing about the Lord going back up to Heaven, waiting seven years, then returning in Coming 3.0.

Our Lord will come again. When He does, that’s it. The story is over. No seven-year tribulation, no waiting around for Him to return a third time. As C.S. Lewis put it, “When the Author walks on stage, the play is over.”

[Just mythoughts]

Paul was not preaching rapture doctrine. Now I know that I am not going to pull that notion out of your mind, because Ezekiel 13 and in particular verses 17-23 foretells what was going to be.

So which ‘trumpet’ is it that the Lord Himself will come down from heaven? Sure is not the 6th one, Paul and John and even Christ says it is the 7th and or last.