The word Rapture means “to snatch up or seize” unexpectedly. In Old Testament times two individuals were seized by God, or “snatched up”.  Both Enoch (Genesis 5:24) and Elijah (2 Kings 2) were walking along one day and – suddenly they were gone, snatched-up by God! So we know it is not unprecedented. God will do it again.  Jesus, and the Apostle Paul, and several others (Luke 21:36) – have prophecied that a “Rapture” will take place in the End Times.