“Rapture” teachings that you hear are also filled with many other ideas. Not least is both a Second Coming and a perhaps a third coming. A third coming is implicit in much premillenial teaching. In some of these teachings there is even a “secret” coming of Christ to covertly snatch up His faithful ones. However,
The Second Coming will not be secret.
“Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and EVERY eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen. ”
Rev 1:7 WEB
“26 men fainting for fear, and for expectation of the things which are coming on the world: for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 27 Then they will SEE the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.”
Lk 21:26-27 WEB (emphasis added)
Scripture does NOT teach both a second and third coming,
but only a Second Coming. In Scripture the Second Coming is associated with the passing away of this present universe.
“24 But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, 25 And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.”
Mk 13:24 KJV
“26 whose voice shook the earth, then, but now he has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens.” 27 This phrase, “Yet once more,” signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain. 28 Therefore, receiving a kingdom that can’t be shaken, let us have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe”
Heb 12:26-28 WEB
Perhaps a Secret (??) Taking Out
of the Followers of Christ.
When the “man of lawlessness,” 2Thes 2:3, “sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God,” 2Thes 2:4, then the active suppression of all Christians starts.
When it starts that “All who dwell on the earth will worship him,” Rev 13:8, and the abomination of desolation is set up, then,
Christians are to IMMEDIATELY run for cover
“16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 17 Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take out things that are in his house. 18 Let him who is in the field not return back to get his clothes.”
Mtt 24:16-19 WEB
Armies are sent to capture all Christians
“8 … the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war; the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. 9 They went up over the breadth of the earth, and surrounded the camp of the saints, …”
Rev 20:8-9 WEB
Physical Israel (who will be Christians in those days) and all true believers, will have to be rounded up. Ezekiel 38 pictures Gog and Magog combing the globe for believers.
KJV is the King James Version, 1611.
WEB is the World English Bible, a copyright free revision
of the original ASV American Standard Version 1901