The great catching away is often referred to as the Rapture. It is an event which either will happen soon or has already occurred, depending on when you read this. The Bible, God’s book, speaks of this event in many places.
“Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. ” Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.” Matthew 24:40-41
“Behold I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, “In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. “For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.” I Corinthians 15:51-53
“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: “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.” I Thessalonians 4:16-17
Jesus knew that the great tribulation spoken of in Matthew 24:21
“For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.”
That this would be the worst period of suffering the earth has ever or will ever experience. For this reason He sees fit to promise His own, those who truly have accepted Him as their savior, that they will escape this terrible period and be taken to heaven before this great tribulation begins.
“Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.” Luke 21:36
“Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.” I John 3:2
So be assured that those who have instantly disappeared from the earth have been taken to heaven to be there with Jesus forever.
Evil men may try to get the people of earth to believe otherwise, but don’t believe the lie. The wicked one, often referred to as the antichrist, will come on the world scene after the true disciples of Jesus have been removed from this earth to heaven.
“But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children: So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us. For ye remember, brethren, our labor and travail: for laboring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God. Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holy and justly and unblameable we behaved ourselves among you that believe: As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children, That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.” I Thessalonians 2:7-12