The ignorance is strong with this one. The new bodies and behavior mechanisms will be very physical, but in a spacetime coordinate system you will not be able to sense, hence you will imagine 'disappearance' and perhaps even believe the lie offered as explanation for the left behinds.
The Word of God tells us we are each a body, soul (behavior mechanism) and spirit. To be born again by the Grace of God is to have God abiding in the born again spirit. When the Rapture event begins the command of God will RESONATE with the Seed of God in the born agains' spirits, instantly changing the mortal into immortal, the corruptible into incorruptible.
Why should someone who believes in the “rapture” get ANGRY when shown, from the Bible, that the so-called “secret rapture” is a myth?
If Christ is going to redeem the saved; if Christ is coming to catch up His people, including the dead in Christ, and descend with them to the mount of Olives in the same day, then His true followers will be SAVED, will they not?
They will be born of God by a resurrection, or an instantaneous change, will they not? (1 Corinthians 15:50-52).
They will then come down from the clouds, perhaps anywhere from 10 to 40,000 feet above the earth, in this earth’s atmosphere, and will be with Christ as He begins to rule this earth with a rod of iron.
What is so wrong with these wondrous promises of your Bible that “pretribulationists” and “secret rapturists” seem to violently object?
It is simply this: Somehow, they cannot bring themselves to believe the “saved” could suffer any harm! For some reason, an insidious false assumption has crept into the minds of millions of people, an assumption which says God would not think of allowing His saints to come to any physical harm! No, any such terrible event is reserved only for the wicked, so they think! What they do not realize is that such a false assumption makes them out to be better than Christ!
Did not Christ say, “If they have persecuted me, they will persecute you also”? Did He not say, “In this world ye shall tribulation”? Did He not say, “The time will come when they that killeth you will think they do God a service”?
Another equation in this false assumption is that martyrdom is reserved for the spiritually weak !
Those who cling to the false notion of “church eras” point out how God will allegedly throw those in the so-called “Laodicean attitude” of lukewarmness into the Great Tribulation, while spiriting away into a desert wilderness the “good” people in the “Philadelphian era.”
According to this scenario, those closest to God; those on fire with zeal; those with the most faith, the most works, the most spiritual character, will be PROTECTED from the Tribulation, miraculously “taken to a place of safety.”
But those who are less faithful, not so close to God; those without zeal; those who are lukewarm, who have weak spiritual character, will be chosen as God’s martyrs!
As they suffer, they will realize how terribly weak, and lukewarm they have been, as the theory goes, and, under torture and eventual death, they will repent!
But WHO did God choose as His martyrs?
Look at the list: Jesus Christ, Peter, James, Paul, Stephen, Antipas, dozens of others in the first century. Read the eleventh chapter of Hebrews, how God’s greatest prophets were oftentimes martyred for their faith.
John saw a vision of the witness of two prophets, two human beings who will personally testify against the Beast and the False Prophet! Their Prophecy is to take place during the Tribulation!
“And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
“These are the two olive trees [mentioned in symbol in Zechariah 4:3], and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.
“And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.
“These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
“And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit [the abyss—a spiritual metaphor] shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
“And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
“And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.
“And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts to one another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwell on the earth.
“And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet and great fear fell upon them which saw them.
“And they heard a great voice out from heaven saying unto them, ‘Come up hither,’ And they ascended to heaven [this earth’s atmosphere, where vapors form clouds—not the “third heaven” of God’s throne] in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.
“And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted: and gave glory to the God of heaven” (Revelation 11:2-13).
These two men are in Jerusalem all during the Tribulation and the Day Of the Lord. Their three and one-half year’s testimony coincides exactly with the “time of Jacob’s trouble,” of three and one-half years; with the “times of the Gentiles” of three and one-half years; with the “treading down of Jerusalem” of three and one-half years!
God gives them power far above that of Moses or Elijah. The plagues they call down upon sinning mankind, upon the Beast and False Prophet, are global in nature, not national, or local, as in the former cases.
These two prophets, the “two witnesses” of the future, are human beings, converted, Spirit-led SAINTS! They are Christ’s servants, conducting the last-minute, FINAL phase of God’s work on this earth of PERSONALLY witnessing to the Beast and False Prophet in the name of Christ!
What happens to them?
They are martyred!
When the Beast is finally able to “make war” against them, overcome them, and kill them, the Bible does not tell us specifically how they die. You can be sure it will not be pleasant! Yet, after lying dead in the street for three and one-half days, they are obviously resurrected, and will be given eternal life! Are these two great prophets “Laodicean”?
Are they “left behind” when the saints are “raptured,” or the so-called “Philadelphia era” goes to a “place of safety”?
Do they suffer a horrible death because they are spiritually inferior?
No, God does not choose the spiritually WEAK, the lukewarm, to be His martyrs!
Instead, He chooses those who are so close to God that they literally count all things in this life “as dung” (Philippians 3:8) in comparison with the Kingdom of God, and eternal life!
“Rapturists,” like “survivalists” and “escapists,” have their minds on the preservation of this physical life!
Jesus Christ tells them that those who seek to save their lives in this world, who have their minds on physical things, are likely to lose out on salvation!
No, God is NOT going to “rapture” away His saints secretly. The lady with the bumper sticker will not suddenly disappear through her roof, after all!
Let us not trust in false hopes, but in Jesus Christ of Nazareth, and God the Father, Who loves us, and Who promises eternal life with Him in His Kingdom to all those who “endure unto the end ,” whether that means the end of our own physical lives or the end of the Tribulation and the Day of the Lord!