then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.
Marvin Rosenthal offered a unique interpretation that he called the "pre-wrath Rapture." [Note: Marvin Rosenthal, The Pre-Wrath Rapture of the Church.] He believed that the only time when God will pour out His wrath on the world will be the last quarter, rather than the last half, of Daniel’s seventieth week (Daniel 9:24-27). He equated this 21-month long period with the day of the Lord (Joel 2:1-2). [Note: The chart below is from John A. McLean, "Another Look at Rosenthal’s ’Pre-Wrath Rapture,’" Bibliotheca Sacra 148:592 (October-December 1991):388.] 