Hi Rick,

 

Thanks for your encouraging words!  Good News! There is a 'pre-trib' rapture in the sense that the tribulation does not begin until the mid-point of the 70th Week of Daniel. The entire seven-year period is not the tribulation. It is only the last 3 1/2 years, or the forty-two month reign of the anti-Christ just before the Second Coming of Jesus.

 

Matthew 24:21

"FOR THEN there will be great tribulation....."  This Scripture refers back to:what it is that begins the tribulation.

Matthew 24:15

"So when you see standing in the holy place the abomination that causes desolation......."  This Scripture is referring to the anti-Christ when he stands in the temple and declares himself to be God at the mid-point of the 70th Week of Daniel when he breaks the "covenant with many"

 

We watch together.

 

YBIC, Bruce the "barbarian".