toldailytopic: Is there a difference between the Rapture and the Second Coming?

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1 Thessalonians 4:15
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming [παρουσία parousia] of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.​


παρουσία parousia from πάρειμι pareimi

παρουσία parousia
___1) presence
___2) the coming, arrival, advent
______a) the future visible return from heaven of Jesus, to raise the dead, hold the last judgment, and set up formally and gloriously the kingdom of God

πάρειμι pareimi
___1) to be by, be at hand, to have arrived, to be present
___2) to be ready, in store, at command
Because words never mean more than one thing. Oh, wait, there are two meanings given for each of these.:jawdrop:
 
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