51 Behold, I tell you a
mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be
changed— 52 in a
moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.
For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised
incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible
must put on incorruption, and this mortal must
put on immortality.
According to
the above scripture, the twinkling of an eye is in
regard to being changed into immortality, not to being
caught up. It seems as though we are instantly
changed into immortality before our nervous systems can
even register what it feels like. However, nothing
is said to indicate being caught up is instantaneous or
not a visible event.
Additionally,
we are caught up in orderly succession, as the dead are
raised first while the living remain, and then are
caught up last.
1 Thessalonians 4:15-17
New King James Version (NKJV)
15 For this we say to
you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and
remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means
precede those who are asleep. 16 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. 17 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.