Good Morning Marilyn:
I have studied your premise of Rev. 2:22 explaining both a Mid-Trib and Post-Trib rapture and over the years as a possibility. In all respect to your view, I have not been able to reconcile any of the different positions other than a Pre-Tribulation Rapture.
Dr. Randall Price published a book about ten years ago, the title slips my memory at the moment, but he organized and charted all the various views on the Rapture. In his charting of each view, he identified the plus and minus points of each view.
Dr. Price's concluding remarks were that the Pre-Tribulation Rapture had the fewest issues that could not be reconciled with the context of the prophetic message.
I don't have a copy of the book in my library since giving it away when I retired several years ago. I remember enough of his study to note that all the differing views were analyzed objectively, weighing all the points, passages, etc. The title of the book just came to my mind as I was typing this. The title is 'Charts of Bible Prophecy' and Dr. Price co-authored the book. If my memory is good, I believe it was a man by the name of Wayne House.
The book that I am referring to was as I recall, the most thorough of anything available that did a comparison and contrast presentations by differing views of the best minds of each end time scenario held to by scholars. Each of the views had irreconcilable or unresolved questions. The Pre-Trib Rapture had the fewest, like 2 or 3 based upon what might have been viewed as conflicting passages.
As you know from reading my posts, I am a dispensationalist in my theology today. The first half, about 28 years of my ministry I was actually nothing, by that I mean that I didn't have a position on end times because of being educated in "Covenant/Reform" Presbyterian and Methodist seminaries. Prophecy is just not taught, its not a required study. The book that woke me up was a book by Dr. Arnold Fruchtenbaum, entitled 'Israelogy: The Missing Link in Systematic Theology'. When I purchased this book, I purchased his other book 'Footsteps of the Messiah', which has since been revised and updated. At the time I purchased Dr. Fruchtenbaum's books I was sitting on the fence so to speak. These two books turned my life upside down, restructured my belief regarding prophecy, and resulted in my leaving the United Methodist Church, and sacrificing a nice retirement package. I spent about a year weighing the Biblical Truth against Dr. Fruchtenbaum's work on the subject, before I jumped ship to my new dispensational view. Dr. Fruchtenbaum's books were like getting a new pair of glasses where the focus suddenly became clear, sharp and crisp. Many of fellow pastors took the Pan-Tribulation view, not wanting to jeopardize their retirement benefits, rather than to study the evidence that had been withheld by their professors in seminary. The Pan-Trib view, in case you have not heard the view means, "it will all pan out in the end so they don't deal with prophecy".
Because I hold to the Pre-Trib Rapture position, and Dispensationalism is the only hermeneutic that correctly holds to the distinctive nature of Israel and the Church, as two separate entities, I see only one Rapture, and that begins with the beginning of Daniel's 70th week. The "Covenant/Reformed" hermeneutic of rendering Scripture "replaces" Israel with the Church. Paul makes it profoundly clear in Romans 9,10 & 11 that is incorrect. God is not through with Israel. The theme that God is not finished with Israel is well documented for those in doubt. There are some 40 passages of prophecy at a primary level and as many as 100 passages at a secondary level that supports God's plan for dealing with Israel, and only after the Church is removed. I am not attempting to proof-text a doctrine on one or two verses, but rather, the teaching of a "Seven" year Tribulation is well founded on no less than 140 passages of Scripture.
I have enjoyed reading your point of view but as I said, I can't reconcile but one and only Pre-Tribulation Rapture.
God blessings to you,
Pastor Bob