not to be quickly shaken in your mind, nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by letter as from us, saying that the day of Christ had come.
Some premillenarians include the Rapture in the day of the Lord. [Note: E.g., Thomas, pp. 318, 319; and Bruce, p. 163.] But others exclude it. [Note: E.g., John F. Walvoord, The Thessalonian Epistles, p. 73.] Those who include it point to the Rapture as the beginning of God’s direct intervention in human history again. They also stress that the parousia ("coming" or "appearing") refers in Scripture to the Lord’s coming and to events that follow the Lord’s coming. Those who exclude it do so for two reasons. The Rapture is a church event whereas the day of the Lord is an Israel event, and the beginning of that day resumes the chronology of Daniel’s seventy weeks. The seventieth week begins when the Antichrist signs a covenant with Israel allowing the Jews to return to their land (Daniel 9:27). I favor the second view. While the term parousia is broad and refers to the Rapture and to many events that follow it, the term "the day of the Lord" seems more narrowly defined in Scripture and nowhere specifically includes the Rapture.