[.30Carbine]

Acts 1:9 After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight. 10 They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. 11 “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.”

This passage does not contradict the rapture, it confirms it!

1 Thessalonians 4:17 - Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord

[MHGinTN]

Amen! see you in the clouds.

[SkyDancer]

It say He will return exactly as He left; not some secret taking away. His return is with a lot of trumpets at the end of the Tribulation, going to be noisy not quietly.

There is no mention of any Rapture prior to the late 1700's to early 1800's.

[SkyDancer]

"1 Thessalonians 4:17 - Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord."

And exactly what is happening? It's the Second Coming, not some secret Rapture.