Dear Ellen,

We thoroughly enjoyed your description of the Rapture and agree with you whole-heartedly that the timing may be spanned out ( like a processional) rather than an instant upward thrust. It still would be one and the same event, and it would still be at the same time ( time spanned out ).
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/may2007/elleng58-2.htm

It is like watching the Rose Parade. All the people march down the boulevard "together", but not in the same instant...yet at the same time ( spanned out ). That is what a processional is, and we see the rapture as a processional.
"Each in his own order" 1 Corinthians 15:23.

Now the viewpoint we have in the following article is only our viewpoint and we understand that it is
a unique viewpoint.
However, it is substantiated within Scripture and thus it is not to be ruled out, per se.

Midnight: They all slumbered and slept ( Matthew 25:5 )
www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/midnight.html

One good thing is that viewpoints on the rapture are not doctrinal; they are strictly viewpoints.
As Jan Mikael says, we must all allow some space on this board for various opinions.

or as Pastor Chuck Smith always says,
"It's OK to disagree, as long as one disagrees agreeably"

So, for what its worth, we pass it along to the Doves.

In Him,