I have always thought that verse was referring to the whole world..You
see when we are working in America it is day but on the other side of the world people are sleeping... It is also because salvation is very personal.
Salvation is a person not an event, Salvation is a love affair...The more we
know our Jesus the more we love him...
But no matter whether there is a raprure or not... to be ready to meet Him when He comes is key. Why churches study books written by man and not
The Book written by God is a mystery to me. It is in the scriptures we see our Jesus.
There isn't any book in our hands that is "written by God" --
Firstly, the Bible is a collection of books
Secondly, the various bookS of the Bible were God-inspired. They are the word (little "w") of God, but were written by men who were inspired by God