Jesus will return and there will be a rapture:
1 Thes 4:16-17
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven
with a shout, with the voice of the archangel,
and with the trump of God: and the dead in
Christ shall rise first: Then we which are
alive and remain shall be caught up together
with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in
the air...
But He comes and raptures us after the
tribulation:
Matt 24:29-31
After the tribulation... they shall see
the Son of man coming in the clouds...
And he shall send his angels with a great
sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather
together his elect...
1 Thes 4:16-17
For the Lord himself shall descend from
heaven... with the trump of God... Then
we which are alive and remain shall be
caught up... in the clouds...
Mark 13:24-27
After that tribulation... then shall they
see the Son of man coming in the clouds...
And then shall he send his angels, and
shall gather together his elect from the
four winds, from the uttermost part of
the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.
We meet Jesus in the clouds on His way
down to the earth:
Acts 1:11
This same Jesus, which is taken up from
you into heaven, shall so come in like
manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
He went from the Mount of Olives to the
clouds to heaven. He will return from
heaven to the clouds to the Mount of
Olives:
1 Thes 4:17
We... shall be caught up... in the clouds,
to meet the Lord in the air...
Zech 14:4
And in that day His feet will stand on
the Mount of Olives...
We must endure the reign of the Antichrist:
Rev 13:7, 10
And it was given unto him to make war with
the saints... He that leadeth into captivity
shall go into captivity: he that killeth
with the sword must be killed with the sword.
Here is the patience and the faith of the
saints.
Rev 14:12-13
Here is the patience of the saints: here are
they that keep the commandments of God, and
the faith of Jesus. And I heard a voice from
heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the
dead which die in the Lord from henceforth:
Yea, saith the Spirit...
Rev 20:4
I saw the souls of them that were beheaded
for the witness of Jesus, and for the word
of God, and which had not worshipped the
beast, neither his image, neither had received
his mark upon their foreheads, or in their
hands...
The false doctrine of the pre-trib rapture becomes
dangerous when Christians begin thinking that GOD
has PROMISED them a pre-trib rapture. When it doesn't
happen, and they find themselves in the tribulation,
what will happen to their faith?
Don't lose faith when there is no rapture before
the tribulation. The Bible doesn't teach a rapture
before the tribulation.
The rapture can't happen at anytime.
Jesus didn't say noone will know the time.
Jesus won't come like a thief for the righteous.
There's no secret coming of Christ.
The rapture doesn't take us into heaven.
The blessed hope is at the 2nd coming.
The marriage supper is at the 2nd coming.
Jesus comes back once, with and for the saints.
The "last trump" is at the 2nd coming.
The 1st resurrection is at the 2nd coming.
The judgment of the saints is at the 2nd coming.
The wrath we're delivered from isn't the tribulation.
We won't escape the tribulation through a rapture.
We won't be kept from the tribulation through a rapture.
We aren't to comfort each other with a pre-tribulation rapture.
"One taken, one left" doesn't refer to a pre-tribulation rapture.
The Christians in the tribulation are the Church.
Matthew 24 is for the Church.
The one taken out of the way is not the Church.
The falling away is not a pre-trib rapture.
The gates of hell shall not prevail.
The rapture doesn't happen at the 6th seal.
The rapture doesn't happen at the 7th trumpet.
Miraculous protection is not assured.
The purpose of a post-trib rapture.
Christians and heathen will be in the millenium.
The 24 elders aren't the Church.
The woman in the wilderness is the Church.
The 70 years of the fig-tree generation.
Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord.