The Rapture is an eschatological (end-times) concept held by some Christians, particularly those of American evangelicalism, consisting of an event when all dead Christian believers will be resurrected and, joined with Christians who are still alive, together will rise "in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air." Many different timelines have been asserted that tie to ideas of a seven-year Great Tribulation — for example, pretribulation, midtribulation, prewrath, and posttribulation raptures — and to a thousand-year age of... [more on Wikipedia]