Hello Doves,

I also believe that we will be given advance warning before our Rapture.  I do not know how much time.  I also believe that there would be a time lapse between when the Dead in Christ are raised and when we will be Raptured.  It could be seven days, I thought it more likely 10 minutes or so myself.  I was basing it on the scriptures of Lot's departure and Paul's accounts.  In Lot's account, the angels told Lot to gather what people he had and to flee.  Lot then went and told his Sons in Law, who then mocked him.  Then just before dawn, the angels actually had to grab them by the hands and escort them out of the city.  Paul tells us that the dead will rise first and THEN we which are alive and remain will go.  Also, I had a rapture dream just over a year ago where I spotted the signs and then warned my wife.  Nothing happened until the "countdown" was complete. At which point I woke up.  The countdown were these high backed chairs that had a series of lights (which may or may not be seven.  My memory could be playing tricks on me).  These lights were wide with the next row above then having a shorter width until the top light which made it look like a multi-level 2D pyramid.  The lights lit up one after the other from the bottom up.  I do not recall the number of lights, but I believe it to be between 5-10 lights.  Mine were already lit and you had to pray to light up the lights.  When my wife was praying I saw her's light up.  When she had filled them all up, we looked up and saw an angel hovering in the sky.  Now that my memory is coming back again, I saw the angel first, coming from afar off and that was the sign I saw that told me the Rapture was at hand.

Well God bless you all