Gino....you present an excellent string of logic. Call me old fashion, but I still believe in the pre-tribulation rapture. I believe the weight of evidence in scripture supports it. There are a few reasons why proponents of other views do not subscribe to a pre-trib rapture.1. Many believe that as wayward christians, we must go through a cleansing by going through the tribulation in order to be re-fined. If that's true, then all of the dead saints who are now with the Lord would also have to be re-surrected to go through the tribulation to also be "re-fined".2. Many just cannot comprehend such a supernatural event occuring, because it is just too much of a seemingly impossible event to occur on such a wide scale.3. Many look at history and say that we have always had tribulation and tough times and God did not rescue or "rapture" His people out of it. However, those were tough times and persecutions brought on by man. The tribulation will be a period of judgement brought on by God....and he will remove His children from it. He even gives us precedent in His Word. He removed Noah and His family from His time of Wrath. He removed Lot and his family before His time of wrath.4. Many, and I believe this is where we are today, many have grown impatient and are now trying to force scripture to say that we are in the tribulation, Obama is the anti christ, the abomonation of desolation just occured last month (I still can't get my head wrapped around that one), we are about to be in the sixth seal, etc. All a result of impatience and trying to force an event who's time has not yet come.As I see it, the rapture will be the next major prophetic event to take place, and that event will be the catalyst that will kick off the seven year period of time known as the tribulation, or Daniel's 70th week. We are probably in that window at this time for the rapture to occur, but we will not know exactly when that event will take place. But when it does, I believe seven years of tribulation will begin for those who remain.I also believe that if a person is truly saved, then they will be caught up with us in the rapture and be pleasantly surprised..... and grateful..... that they escaped the wrath to come, as God tells us in His word.But here's the bottom line. If we die before the rapture, or go into the tribulation and get killed, (which I don't believe we will), but if we do, we go immediately to be with God. Absence from the body....present with the Lord. Then on the day of the rapture, our physical body will be resurrected and we will rise first. Its a win win, no matter which way you go.