Why Christian orthodoxy rejects the "Rapture"

The "Rapture," popularized in the bestselling "Left Behind" series, is a belief that when Christ returns the dead will rise from their graves to meet the Lord "in the air," literally "among the clouds," to be followed by the redeemed living who will sail into the sky, too.

This is, frankly, bunkum, since the Bible does not teach that nor is there apostolic witness to it. In fact, it was utterly, completely, 100-percent absent from all Christian teaching until 1830, when Margaret MacDonald, a Scottish lass of 15, made it up.

for an explanation of why Christian orthodoxy rejects this notion, here ya go: Fr. Peter-Michael Preble: Judgment Day: An Orthodox Christian Perspective