(1Co 15:23) “But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.” We know this is referring to the Rapture, for Jesus comes, just not down to this earth, which is why it is not to be refused with the Second Coming in which He does to reign as King. (1Th 4:16) “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 together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”