What is the Church's teaching on the Second Coming?

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What is the best, simplest way to explain that there will not be a “rapture”?

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The following links should assist you in better understanding the Catholic Church’s teaching on the “rapture”. If you have any further questions or concerns that are not answered by these links, please [contact Catholic Answers (http://www.catholic.com/home/contact.asp) directly.
**Recommended Reading:
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• The Rapture
• Without the Rapture, what is Revelation about?
• Where does “Left Behind” go wrong?
• The Antichrist (Fathers*)
• The Whore of Babylon
• Hunting the Whore of Babylon

Additional study:

• What Jesus Really Said About The End Of The Worldhttp://shop.catholic.com/books-1/ap...re-heaven-hell-purgatory-and-indulgences.html
• Beginning Apologetics 8: What Catholics Believe about the Second Coming, the Rapture, Heaven, Hell, Purgatory, and Indulgences