Yes. According to Scripture, there will be a time before Jesus returns which is known as "the tribulation" (Matthew 24:21). This is a time of great distress, where there will be:
- Persecution (Matthew 24:9)
- Apostasy or the "abandonment of faith" (Matthew 24:10)
- False prophets (Matthew 24:11)
- Love turned cold (Matthew 24:12)
- Gospel preached in the whole world (Mattthew 24:14)
- Signs in the heavens (Matthew24:29)
- The coming of the Man of Sin and the Rebellion (2 Thessalonians 2:1-10)
Following this Jesus will appear to take away those who are His. This is known as "the rapture." The rapture means “caught up” where Jesus gathers all believers (those who have died or those who are still living) to be with him.
For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever (1 Thessalonians 4:15-17)
At this time Christ will return visibly and judge the nations and establish his kingdom.
At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and all the nations of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory. And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other (Matthew 24:30-31)
Look he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, event those who pierced him; and the peoples of the earth will mourn because of him (Revelation 1:7)
