Returning...

I was raised in a structure that included the timespan of Old Testament to Christ to the returning of Christ and the Rapture. All tidy and structured and very linear. But how easy would it be for us to have mistaken our savior when he returned to us. Could he not have come or perhaps never really left? What the disciples called the Holy Spirit could have been Christ returning not two days after he left them right? After all, we can't really say that there is any difference between Christ or the Holy Ghost, assuming Christ was God (not the safest, but it's my argument dammit). When Jesus said he would return one day, maybe his followers were not acute enough to recognize spirit and fire as the flesh and blood they had walked with. These thousands of years (and how many millinia to come) have been the rapture. We are currently being taken into God, but we didn't notice and remain oblivious to the paradise around us.