In 1 Corinthians 15:51-52 the apostle Paul describes the rapture as occurring “in the twinkling of an eye.” This phrase is Paul’s way of demonstrating how brief the moment of the rapture will be. The fluttering of an eyelid, the blinking of an eye, is exceedingly fast. This means the bodily transformation that living believers will experience at the rapture will be nearly instantaneous. One moment they will be on earth in mortal bodies, and the next moment they will meet Christ in the clouds, instantly transformed into their glorified resurrection bodies.
