The Rapture In Matt. 24?

In your Ask A Bible Teacher section you say Jesus never teaches about the Rapture in Matthew 24. But in Matt 24:36 He talks about no one knows the day or hour not even the Son. Then in verse 42 He says to keep watch because you do not know what day your Lord will come. Doesn’t that have to do with the Rapture?

Q. In your Ask A Bible Teacher section you say Jesus never teaches about the Rapture in Matthew 24. But in Matt 24:36 He talks about no one knows the day or hour not even the Son. Then in verse 42 He says to keep watch because you do not know what day your Lord will come. Doesn’t that have to do with the Rapture since the Day of the Lord (the second coming) can be calculated to the day when the Abomination of Desolation takes place in the temple?

A. The phrase “that day” in Matt. 24:36 refers back to verses 29 and 30, speaking of the 2nd coming, and verse 37 confirms that Jesus was talking about the 2nd coming. By the way, verse 36 says that no one will know about that day, not that no one will know the day. And while the Great Tribulation is 1260 days long and counting those days will bring you to the time of the second coming, verses 42 and 44 seem to say that no one will know the exact day and hour of His return until he actually shows up. In any case the context in Matt. 24 from verse 29 on is clearly the 2nd Coming.