Can we set a date for the Rapture?
No, the Rapture cannot be dated. It is an event that cannot be put on a calendar; believers are instead to expect it at any moment. The word used is imminent—He may come today, tomorrow, next week, or later, but the exact time remains unknown.
Les explains that no one else was ever told to look for this, but the Church Age has been warned and advised to look for it ever since Paul's own experience in Thessalonians. Paul had taught the Thessalonian believers that this thing was going to take place probably in their lifetime. Yet it's an event you can't put a date on, and Les bristles when anyone tries to say that on a certain September day in a certain year the Lord is coming for the Church. We don't know that. You can never set a date, but we are to expect it at any moment. The word used is imminent. He may come this afternoon before leaving the studio, before getting home this afternoon, tomorrow, next week, or sometime down the road. We don't know and can't even speculate, because this is something waiting for the last sinner to be saved and brought into the Body. When the Body of Christ is complete, God takes it out, and then shortly thereafter the Antichrist is going to sign this treaty with Israel.