Why the Day of the Lord should not be confused with a Rapture

There has never ever been a time when I have held the stance that there would not be a taking away of the church before events here on the earth became so unbearable so as that we not him able to bear what was going to happen. The only point that I have remained steadfast on was that there were never ever going to be two events, the day of the Lord and the Rapture.

There are several scriptures that tell us that the Lord is indeed going to be a return to the earth to take his church back home with him. However, there is nothing that I can see at all that says anything about a Rapture. So there is the Day of the Lord, but there is nothing at all that I can find that says anything at all about a Rapture.

There are still going to be those who are going to refer to the verses they say refer to a Rapture when those verse do not refer to a Rapture but instead refer to the Day of the Lord. However as  it is nigh on impossible to predict the timing for the Day of the Lord there is no point at all in even trying to do so because the Day of the Lord and the alleged Rapture do not correlate at all because there is no Rapture.

There is no one that has shown me the following verses at all and it is not just something that I happened to come across on the Internet; just today I was reading the word of God and in doing so noted the following which tells us quite clearly that the Lord is going to take his elect up to Heaven with him when he returns back here to the earth.

 22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.

 23 But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.

 24 But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,

 25 And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.

 26 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.

 27 And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven. Mark Chapter 13, Verses 22 to 27. (Emphasis added)

That language is quite clear, when false prophets and show signs and wonders to seduce, in those days, after that tribulation, the sun and the moon shall be darkened and the moon shall not give light, and the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken, then shall you see the son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory, and then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect (the born again Christians) from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth (from all the earth) to the uttermost part of heaven.

In plain and simple to understand English, when the Lord returns his angels are going to gather the Born Again Christian together and take them up to Heaven, after we see the False Prophets mentioned above. But let’s have a bit of a look for the moment about the condition that we have going on here on the earth at the moment? Don’t we already have many false prophets showing signs and wonders to seduce? If that evaluation is correct (as it is) then it looks to me like the Day of the Lord is not all that far away at all? 

WHY I AM NOT A DISPENSATIONALIST John Nelson Darby is recognized as the father of dispensationalism later made popular in the United States by Cyrus Scofield's Scofield Reference Bible. Charles Henry Mackintosh, 1820–1896, with his popular style spread Darby's teachings to humbler elements in society and may be regarded as the journalist of the Brethren Movement. CHM popularised Darby more than any other Brethren author. As there was no Christian teaching of a “rapture” before Darby began preaching about it in the 1830s, he is sometimes credited with originating the "secret rapture" theory wherein Christ will suddenly remove His bride, the Church, from this world before the judgments of the tribulation. Dispensationalist beliefs about the fate of the Jews and the re-establishment of the Kingdom of Israel put dispensationalists at the forefront of Christian Zionism, because "God is able to graft them in again," and they believe that in His grace he will do so according to their understanding of Old Testament prophecy. They believe that, while the methodologies of God may change, His purposes to bless Israel will never be forgotten, just as He has shown unmerited favour to the Church, He will do so to a remnant of Israel to fulfill all the promises made to the genetic seed of Abraham. I am not a dispensationalist; it is unbiblical.