Pre-Tribulation Rapture

¹⁶For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the archangel’s voice, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

¹⁷Then we who are still alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.

¹About the times and the seasons: Brothers and sisters, you do not need anything to be written to you.

²For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night.

³When they say, “Peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.