bride/Bridegroom metaphor seems much more in keeping with a pretribulational rapture, with the bride (the church) not knowing precisely when the Bridegroom will come for her. Parallels Between Jesus and Paul It is interesting to see how similar Jesus’s teachings on the rapture are to those of the apostle Paul. One need only compare Jesus’s prophetic words in John 14:1-3 with Paul’s prophetic words in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 to see noticeable parallels: • John 14:3 depicts Jesus as coming to the earth