[editor-surveyor]

What you call out there is really sola no scripture!

Scripture is quite plain on when the First Resurrection takes place, as you know, having posted Matthew 24 yourself a few times.

It is the fear of experiencing what Yeshua promised we would experience (persecution, torture, death) that causes otherwise sensible believers to invent escape clauses.
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[MHGinTN]

Well, duh, the Rapture IS what God designed as the escape, BEFORE He begins the tribulation period which is the seventieth week of Daniel's Prophecy found in Daniel 9.

The purpose of the Rapture, theologically, is to remove the Spiritual Church of Jesus Christ which is founded in Grace alone, and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. The Jews will be the salt during the Tribulation. If one does not believe God puts His Holy SPirit int he believer, then it is not difficult to dismiss the escape plan God has for The Spiritual Church of Jeuss Christ. If one cannot see that 2 Thess 2 speaks of the 'restrainer' of the lawlessness as the Holy Spirit, then it is not suprising that the whole reason for the Rapture escapes notice.