This is answered in 1 Corinthians 15:52, "in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye." The word "moment" is interesting. It is the Greek word "atom." The word atom means "not cut, you cannot cut it anymore." Suppose you were to keep cutting up a pie into smaller and smaller pieces. If you had a knife sharp enough (that is, with a small enough blade) you could keep cutting the pieces down to the point where you could not cut the pieces or particles any smaller. We call this an "atom." [However, we now know that you can even cut atoms into smaller particles].

The term "atom" is also used of time. We can cut time into years and into days and into hours and into minutes and into seconds. An "atom of time" is the smallest measurement of time (the point where you can't cut time anymore). In English we might call this a "split-second." How fast will the Rapture take place? In a split second, in the twinkling of an eye. If the unsaved blink, they will miss it!

When Christ calls His Church to Himself there will be sounds and noise involved. "In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed" (1 Cor. 15:52b). "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" (1 Thess. 4:16).

How much of this noise the unsaved will hear is not revealed in Scripture. The event will happen so suddenly and will take place so quickly that it is probable that the only thing the unsaved will notice is the sudden disappearance of those who are true believers. So it was in the case of Enoch. He was there and suddenly "he was not; for God took him" (Gen. 5:24).

Yes, on several occasions. Enoch was suddenly removed from earth by God. God took him (Gen. 5:21-24). Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven (2 Kings 2:11). Philip was raptured (suddenly removed) from one place to another (Acts 8:39). Paul was raptured to the third heaven (2 Cor. 12:2,4). The Lord Jesus was raptured to heaven at the ascension (Rev. 12:5). But that a whole generation of believers will suddenly be removed from earth to heaven without seeing physical death is an event unprecedented in the history of the world (compare 1 Cor. 15:51).

This is answered in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18.

FIRST, God (in the Person of Christ) will come down from heaven and He will bring with Him the souls of those "which sleep in Jesus," that is, who have died in Christ (see verse 16 and verse 14).

SECOND, those who have died in Christ will rise first (v. 16). Their bodies will be raised from the graves.

THIRD, those believers who are alive and remain unto the coming of Christ will be caught up or raptured. Thus those who have died in Christ and those who are alive when Christ returns will together meet the Lord in the air, to be with Him forever (v. 17 and see John 14:3).

The New Testament says that Judas died and went to a special place prepared for him. Nowhere in the Bible say anything about Judas being reincarnated and being the antichrist. Further the Bible does not teach reincarnation.

This question assumes that the trumpet sound of Revelation 4:1 is not a symbolic representation of the rapture. We already have a full description of the rapture in 1 Thessalonians 4; so all we need now is the timing of it.

I know of only one other passage in Revelation that anyone claims to be a representation of the rapture. Revelation 14:14–16 describes a reaping. But Joel 3:13 shows that the sickle swings in judgment, not rapture.

But beyond those little quibbles, something bigger is going on here. Because the major portion of Revelation, chapters 4–19, describe the events leading up to the Lord's return in glory, this tells me that the focus of the book lies in a different direction. We see the same focus in 2 Thessalonians. Our prayer now and in heaven is one and the same. We long for the rule of righteousness, not mere relief and relaxation.

"When they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them" (1 Thessalonians 5:3). The scene in Revelation 6, where they cry for the mountains and rocks to fall on them, I believe happens after the unbelievers are taken and cast into the wrath of God (Revelation 14:19).

No, Luke 17 is not the rapture. Remember, in Luke 17 the ones who are taken end up as corpses for vultures to feed on. Furthermore, Luke 17:31 applies "that day" to a mid-tribulation event (compare Matthew 24:15–18); so if we take "day" in a strict technical sense, we can get tangled up here. All views today (pre-, post-, mid-) commonly believe that the rapture begins the day of the Lord. But the older pre-tribs separated the rapture and the day of the Lord by seven years. I think we were right the first time.

If not the rapture, then what happens on the same day? Destruction. Read the passage again. That's what it says. Some think that the day of Christ and the day of antichrist overlap. But if we believe that the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day (Isaiah 2:17) and if we believe in sudden destruction (1 Thessalonians 5:3), then we can take "same day" in its most literal sense.