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. The apostle Paul tells us that the rapture of the church will follow “a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel” (1