'Rapture'

I Thessalonians 4:13-18:

13. “But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren (believers in Jesus Christ), concerning them which are asleep (dead), that ye sorrow not, even as other which have no hope.
14. “For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep (who have believed) in Jesus will God (Jesus, God, the Word, the Son of God) bring with Him.
15. “For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
16. “For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17. “Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up (at the same time) together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air (earth's atmosphere): and so (from then on, wherever He shall be,) shall we ever be with the Lord.
18. “Wherefore comfirt one another with these words.”

So then, every saint (believer in Jesus Christ) will be taken up by our Lord Jesus Christ (the Word 'made flesh', God, the Son, the only direct descendant of God), and we shall never again be separated from Him.

How will that happen, since our souls are in the sinful flesh of Adam, with the affections and lusts, which drives the flesh to seek its own gratification by the pleasures of the world, and sentenced to die because of the sin that is in it?

I Corinthians 15:48-54:

48. “As is the earthy (natural, physical), such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly (spiritual), such are they also that are heavenly.
49. “And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
50. “Now this I say, brethren (believers in Jesus), that flesh and blood cannot inherit (have any part of) the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption (earthy, destructible, natural, physical) inherit incorruption (of the spirit).
51. “Behold, I show you a mystery; 'We shall not all sleep (bodies die), but we shall all be changed (transformed to incorruption, spiritual, in the very image and likeness of Christ when He shall appear in the first resurrection, and the 'taking away' of the saints: I John 3:2-3),
52. “In a moment (instant), in the twinkling (not 'blink') of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead (bodies of the saints in Christ) shall be raised incorruptible, and we (who are alive at that instant) shall be changed (transformed).
53. “For this corruptible (flesh being) must put on incorruption, and this mortal (body) must put on immortality (spiritual indestructibility).
54. “ So when this corruptible (body) shall have put on incorruption (indestructible spiritual consistence), and this mortal (temporary destructible body)shall have put on immortality (eternal 'substance'), then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, 'Death is swallowed up (ceases to exist) in victory.”

What then will become of all the children, and those who were born with a mental disorder, and could not comprehend the gospel, and those in the womb, who were yet to be born?

Adam had no sin when God made him, and neither did Eve. They were innocent of sin, for they had not transgressed the law of God; and sin is the transgression of the law.' (I John 3:2)

Paul said in Romans 7:9:

9. “For I was alive (had no condemnation of sin upon my soul) without the law once: but when the commandment (law of God) came (to me, and I was aware of it), sin revived (my sins I had committed then became a reality to me), and I died (became guilty of them, and was condemned because of the sins which I had already committed; unknowingly).”

In like manner, many children, from (I believe) conception, will also be taken up, because they had no knowledge of any commandment, nor will they have any condemnation of sin, not having transgressed (violated, failed to keep) a commandment of God.

So when this 'catching away' of all saints and innocents occurs, that will be the first clue as to what has happened, for there will be millions of adults, and millions of children, who will have suddenly, and without any other explanation, come up missing, leaving all materials, which were on their body, as they were 'called away', in the place where they were when that calling away by Christ our Lord occurred: shoes, clothing, jewelry, braces, glasses, purses, money, fillings, whatever they were holding or carrying, and any other things which were not them.

Also, there shall be other conditions and circumstances known only by God in specific detail, in which many (whose situation we did not detail) other individuals also shall be taken up because of their innocence before God, which He alone shall determine, person by person.

This has been a brief summary of the time when many shall be taken up to be with Christ for ever, while great numbers (according to the principles and purposes of God which are implemented while He builds His eternal family of believers and innocents, who shall dwell in that new heaven and earth which God shall build for His family, just as He built the universe to house those whom He would gather to become His family for ever, and all others who did not believe in Jesus Christ when the opportunity was given to them through the hundreds of millions of witnesses He sent with the message of the gospel of Jesus Christ throughout the whole world will be left behind, to dwell in the world that is spoken of in Matthew 24, and in other places throughout the Christian Bible, for all to read.

Jesus said that eventually the heaven and the earth shall pass away (Matthew 24:35); but His word is established for ever, for it is right, and it came from the Father:

(Deuteronomy 18:18-19; John 14:21-24)

And in Revelation 20:11, the end of all natural things which God made will disappear. Peter describes that passing away of the whole universe in II Peter 3:10-13. Then the wicked shall be judged by a just and righteous God for the deeds which they had done, and cast into an everlasting lake of fire: Revelation 20:10-15; Daniel 12:2.

And God shall build a new (spiritual everlasting) heaven and earth for His family, the innocents, and those who were not under a commandment, with those who have believed in Jesus Christ, the One and only Savior of the lost souls of sinful: and I am one of them that was saved by Christ's crucifixion and death, burial and resurrection.

There's still time while you live upon this temporary earth. Believe in Jesus to day, and let Him take away your sins. He will give you a new heart, as He has about a billion others throughout the age of man, all of whom will be 'taken up' when Jesus comes for His people, whom the scriptures have described.

Don't be 'left behind'. God loves you. Love Him back.