Is the rapture announced by prophecy so we can know when it happens?
The rapture is not prophetically announced, so no one can know the exact time it will occur. There is nothing indicating it must happen tomorrow or next year. Believers are simply to be ready, leaving seven years before the Second Coming.
Les teaches that the rapture is not prophetically announced. We do not know when it will happen, and nothing indicates it will be tomorrow or next year. The only thing we know is that as the world scene is being fulfilled for the final seven years and the Second Coming, we have to be ready at least seven years ahead of that. So when you see the signs of the world getting ready for the Second Coming, remind yourself that we are going to leave seven years ahead of that and better be ready. Paul then continues in I Corinthians 15:54 about the corruptible putting on incorruption and the mortal putting on immortality, when death is swallowed up in victory.