Eric,
 
Not sure where you are going with "Deuteronomy 24:5" but we hope it relates to the rapture. Can't wait to hear about your conclusions.
 
However, the implications of Deu, 24:5 changed our lives completely. My wife and I dared to take Deu. 24:5 it literally and lived it out in real life.
 
Here is the short version.
 
I first heard about this verse in 1977 as it related to getting married.
 
As my future wife and I, along with our pastor, discussed this verse, we
concluded that this is God's ideal plan for newlyweds; but hardly anyone took it
serious.  Well, we did. We made it part of our wedding/honeymoon plans.
 
We packed up a 1970 Ford Econoline van, that had been custom made into a
camper, complete with stove, sink, fridge, bed, table, heater, and pop-up roof, so that we could stand in it.
 
Then, just before our wedding, we quite our jobs!
 
We had about $1000, which went along way back then.
 
Three days after our marriage, on May 13th, 1978, we left Detroit, and drove off into the Sunset to experience the "one year honeymoon"; encouraged by the verse you quoted, Deuteronomy 24:5 –
 
      “When a man takes a wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be
       charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and
       shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.”
 
For the first six months we visited friends, family and many National Parks all across the West. We then settled in Eureka California where we took only part time jobs... working together at each job; earning just enough to subsist; with the goal of getting to know one another and cheering up my wife.
 
We worked together filleting fish in a fishery. Delivered newspapers together. Worked construction clean up together.
 
When the year was up in May of 1979 God got us full time jobs, working separately, away from one another, for the first time in a year.
 
Deuteronomy 24:5 worked.
 
Two years later our first child arrived. Two years after that we once again quite our jobs, packed up, and moved to Europe, where we were tent making missionaries for 9 years in Munich. During those years I was gone from my family 12 hours a days, 5-6 days a week. My wife and I were separated a lot during those years. Our second daughter was born there.
 
Deu. 24:5 also laid the foundation for a marriage that is now over 29 years old and stronger than every.
 
Then it happened again. Deu. 24:5 is once again changing our life together.
 
Last year, my home based business finally earned enough money to allow my wife to quite her job and help me in mine. Although we took a pay cut, at last, we are working together again! It is like a second honeymoon. Together our work day averages 5 hours; leaving us plenty or time to do chores, shop, go out for coffee, etc. together.
 
We fully believe that this new life of working together is the fruit of having put Deu. 24:5 to the test at the beginning of our life together. It set the standard.
 
Likewise we believe that we will be raptured together.
 
We also beleive that Deu. 24:5 is part of God's way of insuring that "the two shall become one flesh"!
 
And just so you know, the wedding ring my wife placed on my finger, has
Deu. 24:5 etched on the inside.
 
"Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. (Prov 3:5-6)"
 
alan and julie trombetta