This is in answer to:

http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/july2015/robertg726.htm

When I read through the Bible on my own, I too, concluded the rapture must at least be mid-trib or post because of the scriptural references you mention.  At the time, I attended a Baptist church which taught the rapture was pre-trib; although I couldn't get a specific reason as to why they thought that I was still curious.  I discovered that if you go back through the scriptures and look for a pre-tribulation rapture, you will find it:


Luke 21:36 New King James Version (NKJV)

 36 Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

Revelation 3:10 New King James Version (NKJV)

 10 Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

1 Thessalonians 1:9-10 New King James Version (NKJV)

 9 For they themselves declare concerning us what manner of entry we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, 10 and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.


The confusion of when the rapture is must occur as the Bible is speaking to all people of all time, including those who do not make the rapture which is only for the Bride of Christ, also called "The Rapture of the Overcomers".  Worldwide, this rapture will not make much of a dent in the human population. Many who are Christian in name only (not born again) will not go, not to mention all those who make no claim to be Christian.