In reply to:
[color:"blue"]The Rapture is not the Second Coming. There is only one Second Coming. In the events of the Rapture, Christ comes into the atmosphere. As I said before, He does not actually touch down on earth.



then I shall like to ask a question. What is a "Second Coming" of the Lord then? For The Lord will come/appear as is stated in the contex of 1Thes 4:18-5:4 whether he is in the air/clouds/atmosphere. In the Book of 1 Thess, this is mentioned 4 four times( 2:19, 3:13, 4:168, 5:23). Not to mention the other references in 2 thes.


19For what is our hope, our joy, or the crown in which we will glory in the presence of our Lord Jesus when he comes?

13May he strengthen your hearts so that you will be blameless and holy in the presence of our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all his holy ones.

16For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.

23Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.




in Christ,

Carlos

"Let all that mind...the peace and comfort of their own souls, wholly apply themselves to the study of Jesus Christ, and him crucified"(Flavel)