There are repeated references throughout the gospels to an immediate afterlife as well as resurrection, both individual and general.
Jesus himself raises many dead, and often refers to the immediate afterlife, of which some detail is given at Luke 16:19-31.
(And see Luke 23:43, "Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.")
In Luke 17:20-37, Jesus speaks of the suddenness and devastation of the coming of the kingdom, comparing it to the flood "in the days of Noah" and to the destruction of Sodom.
In verses 34-37 he says twice that "on that night" of two together, one will be taken and the other left.
The rapture of the living is a feature of the end, as well as the resurrection of the dead.
The perils of translation: do not kill is different from do not murder.
Compare NAB (kill) with NIV, NRSV (murder) Luke 18:20.
Luke 20:27-40 is, according to the note in my NRSV Access Bible, one of the more complete statements in the NT about the bodily state in the resurrection.
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