CATCHING UP (RAPTURE)(JOHN 14:3) AND IF I GO AND PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU, I WILL COME AGAIN, AND
RECEIVE YOU UNTO MYSELF; THAT WHERE I AM, THERE YE MAY BE ALSO.
RECEIVE YOU UNTO MYSELF; THAT WHERE I AM, THERE YE MAY BE ALSO.
Jesus was speaking to Peter and by extension the church.
2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am , there ye may be also.
Notice the first part of verse 3 provides a statement of fact which is then used as a condition for the second part of the verse. This is how they spoke in those days. Jesus is saying in other words, "if you believe that I've gone to prepare a place for you, then believe that I will come again and gather you to myself so that where I am (now on earth), you will be with me also."
Paul uses this same kind of speech here:
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
"If you believe that Jesus died and rose again, then believe that those who sleep in Jesus will God bring with him." Jesus did not say that he will come again and take us to heaven. He said He will come again and we will then be with him wherever he is. The wherever is here on earth for 1,000 years then the eternal state of Heaven.