[OBW]

Whole lot of interesting stuff here. But it is even more interesting that the whole idea of a rapture (as taught in dispensational theology) has only been around for 200 years.

I fear that we ultimately waste too much time trying to pin down details and minutia from types, figures, and metaphors. There is too much clearly in the scripture (including in the NT) that is not about the rapture or the end times that is mostly ignored.

But we would rather pine about the "by and by" at the expense of the "here and now."