HARPAZO

In John 10:22, we see Jesus at the Temple walking in Solomon's Colonnade on the Feast of Dedication (Hanukkah).  This was also the future meeting place of the early Church:

"And all the believers used to meet together in Solomon's Colonnade."  Acts 5:12.

It is during Hanukkah that Jesus tells the Jews that His sheep listen to His voice:

"My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.  I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand.  My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand.  I and the Father are one."  John 10:27-30.

Please notice that the Greek word used in this passage for "snatch" is "harpazo."  The very word we use to describe the Rapture today.

For the Lord himself, with a cry of command, with the archangel's call and with the sound of God's trumpet, will descend from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up (harpazo) in the clouds together with them to meet the Lord in the air; and so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage one another with these words. (1 Thessalonians 4:16-18)