[Boogieman]

“The “caught up” part of that verse is what the discussion is all about. “

That’s certainly what rapture believers WANT the discussion to be about. They would love for everyone to ignore the context that says the living WILL NOT precede the dead in entering the kingdom, because if you admit that, then the entire idea of a rapture prior to the first resurrection is debunked.

[xzins]

Living believers will not precede deceased believers. This is about believers in Jesus. “...we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord...the dead in Christ...”

It is not about unbelievers.

[Seven_0]

... living WILL NOT precede the dead in entering the kingdom, because if you admit that, then the entire idea of a rapture pr ior to the first resurrection is debunked.

Revelation 20 speaks of those who have part in the first resurrection. We celebrate the first resurrection every year on Easter.

[Lazamataz]

Figures you hate the Rapture, you government stooge you.

[MHGinTN]

Your reading comprehension is ... slow. The dead at the Rapture, those believers who have died in Christ are brought back in spirit with the Lord and are given alive bodies which are transformed with the others who have not fallen asleep, then ALL the believers, now alive and transformed, are caught up together in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. This then is the beginning of the journey to the Father's House, seven years before returning with The Lord to set foot on the Earth and destroy the armies arrayed agains5t Israel's remnant.

And thanks for the heads-up, Laz. I missed the telltale odor of government stooge the first time through this thread, until well into the two-hundred plus posts and another one surfaced.