Pre-Tribulation Rapture

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

¹⁷Then we who are alive, who remain, 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.

¹Now as to the periods and times, brothers and sisters, you have no need of anything to be written to you.

²For you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord is coming just like a thief in the night.

³While they are saying, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction will come upon them like labor pains upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.