In 1 Thessalonians, Paul writes to those in Thessaloniki about the final return of Jesus Christ, when the “Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God,” and the dead in Christ will rise and they will meet the Lord in the air (4:16–18). Paul uses technical language to describe welcoming and celebrating the royal king as he returns to his city (similar to the entrance liturgy of Ps 24:7–10).  Scot McKnight and Cody Matchett

In other words, the rapture-gospel movement is a modern phenomenon that was nonexistent for eighteen hundred years of church history, before becoming a cultural touchstone and a central tenet of dispensationalist theology in the last two centuries. Scot McKnight and Cody Matchett

In other words, the rapture-gospel movement is a modern phenomenon that was nonexistent for eighteen hundred years of church history, before becoming a cultural touchstone and a central tenet of dispensationalist theology in the last two centuries. Scot McKnight and Cody Matchett