The purpose of this mission will be for God to gather the saints prior to the "great tribulation" (a time of unparalleled suffering, both in magnitude and intensity, unlike ever before in the history of the world). Note that while the rapture of the church may not be clearly visible because of the speed at which it will be conducted (in the twinkling of an eye), the massive arrival to occur at the second coming of Christ will not be discreet at all. Isaiah 66:15-16 speaks of "chariots like a whirlwind" raining fire down on the Earth.

Isaiah 66:1

For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render His anger with fury, and His rebuke with flames of fire. For by fire and by His sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.

1 Corinthians 15:52

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

Now that I've established a basis for concluding that the rapture of the church could be a mass alien abduction, what are the implications of this conclusion?

After the rapture of the church, the world will be a spiritual vacuum, and this global event will be alarming to the entire planet, to say the least. It will be viewed as the single most devastating catastrophe to ever strike the planet! Furthermore, it will most likely be made known with verifiable proof that there actually was, quite literally, a massive extraterrestrial presence. This will actually be true, which makes the deception to follow even more cunning! Countless videos of spaceships, radar recordings, sightings, etc, will come to light, and the fact that there was a mass alien presence will be clear. HOWEVER, the detail that will be left out is that it will be a glorious abduction that Christians have been longing for ever since Jesus ascended from the Earth, rather than a hostile force that vaporized a large portion of the Earth's inhabitants.

Following the rapture of the church, the Bible describes a prominent figure to arise on the global scene, known as the son of perdition, or more commonly, the Antichrist. Most people know that the Antichrist will be a charismatic spiritual leader, but the Bible actually describes him as a war mongering tyrant more than anything else; the majority of his reign from its inception will be spent making war against his neighbors and assimilating them into his kingdom. The fake peace treaty he will establish with Israel won't come about until after he firmly establishes his powerbase through a great deal of bloodshed.

But concerning this warring dictator that is to come, the Bible states that through a series of deceptions, he will eventually align the majority of the people on the entire planet under his military command. Furthermore, he will also cause most of the people on the planet to abandon the majority of the established faiths in the world, and adopt an entirely new belief system that he will be the leader of. How in the world will he achieve all of this?