@maxdancona,
Possible I guess. But that would be skipping a lot of stuff that’s supposed to happen first. Plus the fact that my read of the story has the 'raptured' meeting Him in the air, but he’s on his way HERE, not heaven. He’s supposed to finish our education here for a thousand years before the end of the story in Heaven.
That makes total sense to me. As it stands now, there are too many sincere believers who would nevertheless have my head on the chopping block for just thinking as I do. I wouldn’t be fond of spending eternity with them either. Yep, a thousand years with Him is what it might take.
And to think that after all that, a bunch of the raptured will join up with Satan when he’s let loose again.