Will the rapture of the faithful occur before the coming of the antichrist?

Some rely on the words of the apostle Paul: “For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord” (1 Thess. 4:16–17) . Therefore, it is worth exploring the origin of the word translated as “caught up” in 1 Thess. 4:17 and how it evolved.

1239 “The Didache” in Early Christian Writings , trans., Maxwell Staniforth and Andrew Louth (Penguin, 1987) 16: p. 197–198.

1240 St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures 15.12 (NPNF II/7:107–108).