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The Rapture, like Mormonism, is the modern teaching of some denominations and sects devolved from Protestantism and they simply cannot agree on it.

The Rapture, like Mormonism, is the modern teaching of some denominations and sects...

The Berean folk might disagree...

1 Thessalonians 4:13-14

But we do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.

1 Corinthians 15:51-53

⁵¹Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, ⁵²in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.

Fifteen Significant Differences between the Rapture and the Second Coming

A number of significant differences are found in the description of the Rapture and the Second Coming of Christ.

At the Rapture Jesus comes for His own [church age believers], at the Second Coming Jesus comes with His own [church age believers].

At the time of the Rapture Jesus comes only in the air (1 Thessalonians 4:17), at the Second Coming Jesus comes to the earth (Revelation 19:11-18).

At the Rapture, living saints receive resurrection bodies (1 Thessalonians 4:17), at the Second Coming, no living believers receive resurrection bodies.

At the Rapture translated saints go to heaven, at the Second Coming translated saints go to earth.

At the Rapture, Jesus comes in the air and returns to heaven (John 14:3), at the Second Coming Jesus establishes His kingdom on the earth.

At the Rapture, there is no judgment on the unsaved upon the earth, the Second Coming concludes God�s judgments on the earthdwellers.

At the Rapture Christ claims His bride, at the Second Coming Christ comes with His bride.

The Rapture delivers the saints from the wrath to come, the Second Coming concludes the wrath to come (Daniel�s seventieth week).

The Rapture is imminent and its proximity is not announced by any prophetic signs; the Second Coming is preceded by specific, recognizable signs.

The Rapture involves only the saved of the church age, the Second Coming involves all on the earth. The saved of the Old Testament are resurrected after the Second Coming.

The Rapture is not mentioned in the Old Testament, but the Second Coming is predicted often in the Old Testament.

Satan is not mentioned in reference to the Rapture, but after the Second Coming, Satan is bound (Revelation 20:2–3).

No prophecy must be fulfilled before the Rapture, many prophecies must be fulfilled before the Second Coming.

At the Rapture only those who meet Him in the air will see Him, at the Second Coming every eye shall see Him.

The Rapture is called the Day of Christ (2 Thessalonians 2:2; Philippians 1:10; 2:16), the Second Coming comes as part of the Day of the Lord (Joel 2:31–32; 1 Thessalonians 5:2).