A popular bumper sticker says, “Caution: In case of rapture this car will be unmanned.”
This is a popular doctrine taught by many religious groups. But would you be surprised to learn that neither the word rapture nor the commonly taught doctrine of the rapture even occurs in the Bible?
It is said that this event will be a “secret rapture,” when the Lord will appear and take away his faithful saints secretly, leaving the rest of the world searching for an explanation of what has happened. The Bible, however, says that the second coming of the Lord will not be a secret, but rather that “every eye will see him” (Revelation 1:7). Paul describes Christ’s coming this way: “The Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God” (1 Thessalonians 4:16).
Friends, the second coming of the Lord will be anything but a secret!
