We are living in the end times of the Laodicean Church Age according to Revelation 3:14-22

In Paul's second letter to the Thessalonians,  he corrected a misunderstanding they had about the Rapture.  He stressed that the gathering of the saints would not take place until 1) the Apostasy -- the great Falling Away  occurs, and 2) The Evil one, the Antichrist comes on the scene. Also Paul makes it clear that the gathering of the saints happens when Jesus comes back in flaming fire.

2 Thes. 1:4-12
So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:
⁵ Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:
⁶ Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
⁷ And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
⁸ In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
⁹ Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
¹⁰ When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
¹¹ Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:
¹² That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

This is the full blown second coming of Jesus Christ, and not some secret Rapture. Nothing secret about this.
The persecuted saints were waiting for verses 7 & 8.   When Jesus comes back we we will first see Him in the sky before He descends down to the Mount of Olives . When He appears in the sky, just before He descends to earth in flaming fire, is when the Rapture will take place. This agrees with 

Matthew 24

²⁶ Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
²⁷ For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
²⁸ For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
²⁹ Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
³⁰ And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
³¹ And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

 2 Thes. 2:-12

 2 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,

² That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
³ Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
⁴ Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
⁵ Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
⁶ And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
⁷ For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
⁸ And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
⁹ Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
¹⁰ And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
¹¹ And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
¹² That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

We are at the end of the Laodicean church age.  The Apostasy from the TRUTH OF JESUS CHRIST has already taken place. The only thing lacking are the laws that will be created to make it illegal to believe in the TRANSCENDENT Jesus Christ. You will be forced to believe in the cosmic christ within you, which is a false christ.  

Before that happens we have been given by the grace of God a bit of a respite before full persecution against true believers begins. This is not the time to play on the wide road to destruction, but time to hear the knock of Jesus on the church door and to open it and sup with Him. Rev. 3:20-22

²⁰ Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
²¹ To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
²² He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.