Eusebius

 — «There was a judge who did not fear God.» … The saying «when the Son of man comes, shall he find faith on earth» reveals a lapse of faith, when no faithful man shall be found, or perhaps somewhere a few scarce ones in the time of his second theophany. For the world shall meet with a great test in the season of apostasy, in which the faithful man will scarcely be found. Suddenly, there shall not even be one, because some have been taken, and the others left behind, delivered to the eagles. In this way, there shall be a lapse of faith among mankind, thereafter he shall take revenge for his saints which had been killed by the ungodly. 

— Hence, I think the apostle Paul was moved to write in this manner on the second coming of Christ, «For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a command, with the call of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God,» and so forth. But the same apostle also set forth in order following this prophecy the end-times coming of the antichrist and his depravity, and after this the glorious appearing of our Saviour.”

— Ἐντεῦθεν οἶμαι τὸν ἀπόστολον Παῦλον ὁρμᾶσθαι περὶ τῆς δευτέρας ἀφίξεως τοῦ Χριστοῦ γράφοντα τοιάδε, Ὅτι αὐτὸς ὁ Κύριος ἐν κελεύσματι, ἐν φωνῇ ἀρχαγγέλου καὶ ἐν σάλπιγγι Θεοῦ καταβήσεται ἀπ’ οὐρανοῦ, καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς. Ὁ δ’ αὐτὸς ἀπόστολος καὶ τὴν ὑστάτην τοῦ Ἀντιχρίστου ἄφιξιν τὴν καὶ ἀπώλειαν, καὶ ἐπὶ ταύτῃ τὴν τοῦ Σωτῆρος ἡμῶν ἔνδοξον παρουσίαν ἀκολούθως τῇ προφητείᾳ παρίστησι λέγων.

 — LATIN TITLE — Fragmenta in Danielem. 

— GREEK TEXT SOURCE — Migne, Patrologiae cursus completus (series Graeca) (MPG) 24, Paris: Migne, 1857-1866. Retrieved from Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (stephanus.tlg.uci.edu). 

 NOTICE THE ORDER OF EVENTS: 

(1) descent of the Lord with the trumpet of God (Rapture)

(2) coming of the antichrist (Tribulation)

(3) glorious public appearing of the Lord (Second Coming)

 CONCLUSION — he makes a clear distinction between the rapture and the glorious appearance, and he sandwiches the time of the antichrist between them — CLARIFICATION — the use of ἀκολούθως (akolouthōs) “in order” (see Lampe) implies that the antichrist and the glorious appearance of the Lord follow the rapture in order 

— CLARIFICATION — the word ἀπώλεια (apōleia) is used here in the patristic sense of depravity (see Lampe) 

— CONFIRMATION — Eusebius says the same thing in Demonstration of the Gospel (fragments of book 15, fragment 5)

— All over again I shall exalt the horns of the righteous, since they were humbled (humiliated). Then they shall be exalted when they shall reign with their own king according to the apostle who said, «For the first fruits is Christ, then those who are Christ’s in his parousia, then the end, when he shall deliver the kingdom to his God and Father, when he shall destroy all authority and power.» When the righteous shall drink the cup of life eternal, which very thing he promised them saying, «until I would drink it new with you in the kingdom of heaven.»

— Symmachus states it thusly, «Because I shall come forth unto my tabernacle, I shall bring myself to the house of God, with the sound of praise and confession of the celebrating multitudes.» Or, according to Aquila, «with the praise and thanksgiving of the feasting crowd.» It presents what is the end (reward) of those who in this present life are genuinely awaiting all that is coming. For the thrice-blessed end shall come upon them, the amazing tabernacle of God, even his house within her, in which the worthy are contained, and they shall be brought into [his presence], being carried aloft by the angelic host. Which even the apostle spoke knowingly of, «We shall be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall ever be with the Lord.» 

 — WHEN he has finished his spiritual temple of rational and soulish stones, that is his church, the Lord himself shall come, even the GOD Word, and with him the angel of the covenant, to the manifested temple. THEN, foreannouncing the things of his second coming, the Word says to the sinners, «Behold the Lord Almighty comes, and who shall endure the day of his entrance? Who shall stand in his appearance?» 

— ὅτε ἐκ λογικῶν καὶ ἐμψύχων λίθων τὸν πνευματικὸν ναὸν, τοῦτ’ ἔστιν τὴν ἐκκλησίαν, ἐπισκευάσαντος αὐτοῦ, ἥξει αὐτὸς ὁ Κύριος καὶ Θεὸς Λόγος ἅμα αὐτῷ τῷ τῆς διαθήκης ἀγγέλῳ εἰς τὸν δεδηλωμένον ναόν, εἶτα, οἷα τὴν δευτέραν αὐτοῦ παρουσίαν προαγγέλλων, ὁ Λόγος ὡς πρὸς τοὺς ἁμαρτωλοὺς φησὶν, «ἰδοὺ ἔρχεται Κύριος παντοκράτωρ, καὶ τίς ὑπομενεῖ ἡμέραν εἰσόδου αὐτοῦ; ἢ τίς ὑποστήσεται ἐν τῇ ὀπτασίᾳ αὐτοῦ;» 

— LATIN TITLE — Generalis elementaria introduction 

— GREEK TEXT SOURCE — T. Gaisford, Eusebii Pamphili episcopi Caesariensis eclogae propheticae, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1842. Retrieved from Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (stephanus.tlg.uci.edu). 

— NOTICE THE ORDER OF EVENTS: 

(1) the Lord shall finish his temple (the church) 

(2) the Lord shall come to his finished temple (3) after the Lord comes to his temple, he foreannounces the awful judgment of the 2nd coming 

— NOTICE THE WHEN, THEN CONSTRUCTION: 

(1) WHEN the spiritual temple is completed, the Lord comes to it THEN the Lord announces beforehand the things of his second coming 

— In the season of the end, God shall bring them to the city of God, even the heavenly Jerusalem, and prosper them with this supreme boon, when he shall take them up like he did with Elijah, carrying them upon angelic chariots, bathing them in heavenly light . . . in regard to the sense, the lofted journey through the air signifies the carrying [of the church] into the heavens, which being interpreted more wisely the divine apostle said, 'we shall be seized in the clouds to meet the LORD in the air, and so we shall always be with the LORD.' So they shall enter into the heavenly city. So all Gentiles who have been saved shall come into the heavenly Jerusalem.

— κατὰ δὲ τὸν καιρὸν τῆς συντελείας ἐπὶ τὴν τοῦ θεοῦ πόλιν καὶ τὴν ἐπουράνιον Ἰερουσαλὴμ ἄξουσιν αὐτοὺς τέλος ἀγαθὸν αὐτοῖς τοῦτο προχωρήσαντες, ὅτε καὶ ἀναληφθήσονται ὁμοίως τῷ Ἠλίᾳ ἐφ’ ἁρμάτων ἀγγελικῶν ὀχούμενοι φωτὸς ἐπουρανίου περιαστράπτοντος αὐτούς … κατὰ δὲ τὴν διάνοιαν τὴν δι’ ἀέρος μετάρσιον αὐτῶν πορείαν τὴν εἰς οὐρανοὺς φέρουσαν σημαίνει, ἣν ἑρμηνεύων ἐπὶ τὸ σαφέστερον ὁ θεῖος Ἀπόστολος ἔλεγεν, «ἁρπαγησόμεθα ἐν νεφέλαις εἰς ἀπάντησιν τοῦ κυρίου εἰς ἀέρα, καὶ οὕτως πάντοτε σὺν κυρίῳ ἐσόμεθα.» οὕτω δὲ εἰσελεύσονται εἰς τὴν ἐπουράνιον τοῦ θεοῦ πόλιν, οὕτω δὲ ἥξουσιν οἱ ἐξ ἁπάντων τῶν ἐθνῶν σῳζόμενοι εἰς τὴν ἐπουράνιον Ἰερουσαλήμ. 

— LATIN TITLE — Commentarius in Isaiam 

— GREEK TEXT SOURCE — J. Ziegler, Eusebius Werke, Band 9: Der Jesajakommentar [Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1975] Retrieved from Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (stephanus.tlg.uci.edu).  

NOTICE THE MAIN EVENTS: 

1) the church shall be taken up and flown through the air 

(2) their ultimate destiny is the heavenly city