Rapture of the Church?

The doctrine of the ‘Rapture’ is an interpretation of Paul’s description in 1 Thessalonians Chapter 4 of both resurrected saints and those believers still alive at the time “ meeting Jesus in the air ” as he is descending from heaven. According to this view, the church is physically removed from the Earth and transported to heaven by the Lord, presumably to a nonphysical and timeless reality outside of the space-time continuum.