The Rapture vs The Second Coming

Rapture

  • Translation of believers
  • Translated saints go to heaven
  • Earth not judged
  • Imminent, any moment, signless
  • Not in the Old Testament
  • Believers Only
  • Before the Day of Wrath
  • No reference to Satan
  • He come for His own
  • He come in the air
  • He claims His Bride
  • Only His own see Him
  • Great Tribulation begins
  • Church believers only

Second Coming

  • No translation involved
  • Translated saints return to earth
  • Earth judged
  • Follows definite predicted signs
  • Predicted in the Old Testament
  • Affects all men on the earth
  • Concludes the Day of Wrath
  • Satan bound
  • He come with His own
  • He come to the earth
  • He comes with His Bride
  • Every eye shall see Him
  • Millennium begins
  • OT Saved raised later

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