Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together to him, we ask you
"This great contrast of attitudes toward the beginning judgment phase of the Day of the Lord and the Rapture [in these verses] is another indicator that the Rapture is not the beginning or any part of the Day of the Lord. Rather, it will be a separate event. Therefore, Paul’s reference to the Day of the Lord in 2 Thessalonians 2:2 is not a reference to the Rapture." [Note: Showers, p. 66.] 