In less than a nanosecond, the Lord will call believers to Himself! “Twinkling” likely refers to the amount of time it takes for light, traveling at 186,000 miles per second, to be reflected on the retina of one’s eye. Paul wrote that the Rapture will take place “in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye” (1 Corinthians 15:52). Not knowing when Jesus will come for His Church causes us to be ready at all times. While many through the years have predicted the date of the Rapture and Jesus’ Second Coming, Jesus’ words in Matthew 24:36-39 should be taken literally: No one, including Jesus and the angels, knows the time of His return. Reason 2: The Rapture is a surprise event. They saw the peaks (events), but not the distance that separates them. The prophets saw the future like seeing successive mountain peaks through a telephoto lens. And they didn’t see the Church at all, which is who the Rapture affects.
The prophets “inquired and searched carefully” (1 Peter 1:10-11), but they saw more of the big picture than the details. But that is not surprising they didn’t differentiate clearly between the First and Second Advents of Christ. The prophets saw what appears to be the Tribulation-“the time of Jacob’s trouble” (Jeremiah 30:7)-not the Rapture.
The purpose of the Rapture is to spare Christ’s own from the horrors of the Tribulation according to Revelation 3:10. The two stages, Rapture and Return, will be separated by a seven-year Tribulation on earth. Will the Rapture occur at Christ’s Second Coming? The short answer is, “Yes, but….” The Rapture sets in motion the End-Time events leading to Christ’s Second Coming. The Rapture Is Different From Christ's Second Coming
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