Forgive me, but when it comes to nonsensical teachings, I do believe Dispensationalism takes the cake. In any number of ways, but most readily in the blatant disregard of the commonsense reading of scripture. For example:
These two passages are widely acknowledged as a "Rapture" passages.
For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words. -1 Thessalonians 4:15–18
Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. -1 Corinthians 15:51–52
Except, when we look at the details given IN these passages, and the details given in the verses directly surrounding them, we are left with no other logical conclusion than that the 'day' and 'coming' spoken of above, is not, in fact, separate from his 'last' coming. Consider:
1 Thess 4 says: "For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air"
We see this same event taking place in Matt 24, which Dispensationalists say is the 'final' second coming.
“Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. -
Matthew 24:29–31
Christ descends visibly...loudly...trumpet sounding. Then the elect will be gathered to him.
Again, it speaks of this in 1 Cor 15:50: "We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed"
A trumpet sounds, the dead are raised first, and then the elect who are alive.
But...does 1 Cor 15 give us a more specific time frame? It does.
But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ. Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death. -1 Corinthians 15:23–26
We are told that AT his coming, THEN comes the end, when he hands over the Kingdom, after he has destroyed every rule, authority and power. And the sign of his victory? The last enemy is death. Which IS defeated BY the Rapture...in other words...the very fact of the dead rising and our meeting the Lord in the air and "being changed in the twinkling of an eye" is what defeats death. It is that that allows us to cry, "where, o death, is your victory?" It has none, Christ has defeated it.
The simple fact is this: if the Tribulation goes on for 7 horrific years after the Rapture, 1 Cor 15:50-55 is not true. We do not cry out, "Where, o death, is your victory?" No...we watch it stampede the earth for another 7 years. Indeed, we watch, apparently, as Jewish and Gentile people become believers in Christ and are then killed. Which makes a mockery of the idea of what Paul is claiming about the Rapture in the first place.
The next simple and logical side-step the Dispensationalists do is this notion of the AntiChrist. The Rapture must come before he does, they say....when scripture says exactly the opposite.
Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers, not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,
-2 Thessalonians 2:1–3
"That day WILL NOT COME UNLESS the rebellion COMES FIRST, and the man of lawlessness is revealed".
I mean...how clear is that?
And Paul is not speaking of second 'final' coming here. He is speaking to current believers...of himself. "Of OUR being gathered to him". He is speaking of Christ's return and Christians being gathered to him. Not any "tribulation saint" being gathered on some foreseen last return.
To suggest anything else of this passage is blatant eisegesis.
So it seems there is plenty of 'nonsense' to go around.