THE RAPTURE

JESUS DIED, ROSE AGAIN, AND ASCENDED; SO WILL THE BELIEVERS WHO DIED WILL RISE AGAIN AND MEET JESUS IN THE CLOUDS.

"But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, 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 Thess 4:13-14 LSB
THE DEAD IN CHRIST WILL RISE FIRST.THEN THOSE ALIVE WILL BE RAPTURED.WE WILL MEET JESUS IN THE CLOUDS."For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.
For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.Therefore comfort one another with these words.  I Thess 4:15-18 LSB
THE DAY OF THE LORD WILL COME LIKE A THIEF IN THE NIGHT FOR THE SONS OF DARKNESSNow concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need of anything to be written to you. For you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night.
While they are saying, “Peace and safety!” then destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains upon a woman who is pregnant, and they will never escape.  But you, brothers, are not in darkness, that the day would overtake you like a thief, for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of night nor of darkness; so then let us not sleep as others do, but let us be awake and sober. For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.










But since we are of the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation.
GOD HAS NOT APPOINTED US FOR WRATHFor God has not appointed us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with Him.Therefore, comfort one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing.1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 LSB  Legacy Standard Bible
WHERE DOES RAPTURE COME FROM?THE WORDS "CAUGHT UP" IN GREEK MANUSCRIPTS IS "HARPAZO."  THIS WORD IS "RAPTURO" IN LATIN.
THE DAY OF THE LORD REFERS TO GOD'S JUDGEMENT.