What is the Rapture, and When Will it Occur?

Just about all Christians agree that a “Rapture”, or the catching up of true believers to “meet the Lord in the air“, will occur at some point during the End Times. What is argued about among believers, and what is not crystal clear from Scripture, is exactly WHEN the rapture will occur.

• Will the Rapture happen before the seven year Tribulation period starts?  Thus true believers – Christians – will be “caught up” (or Raptured) in the “twinkling of an eye” to meet the Lord in the air, and thus be rescued from going through the Tribulation. 
• Will the Rapture occur in the middle of the 7 year Tribulation period, such that Christians will undergo some amount of the Tribulation? The Bible teaches that Christians are to expect tribulation and persecution in this world. If fact, by undergoing persecution and tribulation, we are somehow joined to Christ, in that He suffered for us to make a way to the Father tribulation and persecution during the first 3 1/2 years, but then be rescued (Raptured) before the second half of the Tribulation begins, the time when God pours out His wrath upon a rebellious Anti-Christ and all those who dwell on the earth.
• Or might the Rapture occur at the end of the Tribulation, when Jesus Christ returns in His second coming to the earth, to give relief to believers undergoing tribulation and persecution, and bring judgment vengeance to the Anti-Christ and all the wicked.

What you believe about the timing of the rapture is not a matter of salvation. We are “saved by grace, through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God – not of works, lest anyone should boast.” If you “confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.” So whether you that the pre-tribulation view, the mid-tribulation, or the post-tribulation, your view is not going to determine whether you are saved or not. When you believe the Rapture will come has nothing to do with your salvation (thank the Lord!).

But, what you believe about the Rapture just might affect your attitude and actions in the End Times leading up to the final 7 year Tribulation period. 

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