What is the Rapture of the Church called or described as?
The Rapture of the Church is described as the meeting in the air: believers who are alive and remain are caught up to meet the Lord in the air. It is distinguished from the Second Coming and was a secret revealed by and to the Apostle Paul, not made known in the rest of the Bible.
Les explains that the Rapture of the Church is that meeting in the air, when those who are alive and remain are caught up to meet the Lord in the air. He contrasts it with the final seven years, or tribulations, which are associated with Israel, and with the Second Coming, when Christ will stand on the Mount of Olives. Les teaches that Matthew 24 and other end-time references point to the Second Coming, never to this Rapture of the Church. The Rapture was something the rest of the Bible knew nothing about; it was only a secret revealed by and to the Apostle Paul.