Just out of curiosity, what do you make of the following scripture:
"For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to rise. After that, 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 will always be with the Lord.
This is the main verse that is misunderstood by those advocating for rapture and i have already questioned the promise given to them "...
And so we will always be with the Lord....". We don't see them with the Lord during the millennial rule.
This brings me to the next question: when does this event happen? i don't dispute the event but i know it happens in the very end (second resurrection). Even Paul says "..the very last trump...", there's no single indication pointing to some pretrib rapture or mid trib rapture- Zero evidence, just a wish.
The word's 'being caught in the clouds' doesn't mean physically flying off, they have a spiritual meaning. We know the clouds of heaven is symbolic of glory and power of heaven - the reason that 'the son of man coming with the clouds' is used interchangeably with the 'kingdom of God coming with power and glory' or 'the son of man coming with power and glory'
None of these is physical and this could be the reason the angel insisted that the return of the Lord would be similar to His ascension because He disappeared in the clouds from their sight- meaning that He was changed into a glorified/heavenly body.
Even so, being caught in the clouds could mean being changed to glorified bodies only.
Let's look it from a different angle, when the Lord said ".. pray that your flight may not be during winter..." what did He actually mean because winter is only on earth. He was actually talking about rapture, right? how does winter affect rapture? explain 20mrks