The
Time Frame Of The Rapture
“Concerning
the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you,
brothers, not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by some prophecy, report or
letter supposed to have come from us, saying that the day of the Lord has
already come. Don't let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will
not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the
man doomed to destruction. He will oppose and will exalt himself
over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up
in God's temple, proclaiming himself to be God.
Don't you remember that when I was with you I used
to tell you these things? And now you know what is holding him back, so that he
may be revealed at the proper time. For the secret power of lawlessness is
already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till
he is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the
Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the
splendor of his coming.
2 Thess. 2:1-8 NIV