Donna,

You siad in your post...

Jesus does not make any appearances in Scripture during the Tribulation until the marriage of the Lamb in chapter 19 which eliminates the idea of the Rapture event taking place anytime other than prior to the Tribulation.
What can you say then of this passage:

Rev. 16:15 The Pouring of the Sixth Vial Judgement at the very end of the Great Tribulation and before Armageddon

15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.

This is how I understood the above:

Look! Here I am! I come to snatch and steal away! Blessed are those who watched and keep their lamps with oil and burning and clothed with wedding robes for they will be invited and will take part in the Great Wedding Banquet.

A Thief in Prophecy Society’s understanding is popularly promoted as someone who comes at a time we don’t know. We neglect the most popular secular understanding of a Thief and that is someone who snatch and steal away.

What is the relevance of this proclamation (1 This. 4:16) of Jesus right in the middle of gathering the kings and the armies for the battle of Armageddon and prior to the Punishment of the Great Prostitute which is the exact opposite of the Bride?

Was it for those who have the mark of the beast? Or to the remnant of Israel and Gentiles that were protected and who became followers of Jesus during the Great Tribulation? But if the remnants will be the ones to repopulate the earth in the millennium and will not be taken away to be the Bride, then what is the use of this proclamation for?

Scriptures says that their will be only one resurrection of the dead in Christ. The rapture and the resurrection goes together and will happen simultaneously and only once.

YBIC,

eaglet