The tribulation and God's WRATH being poured out is during Jacob's Trouble. The CHURCH is not Jacob. If you are part of the Church, the called out assembly, born again by the blood of Jesus, you go UP at the rapture. God is not going to have his Bride in pieces. We are ONE. Not one here, one there, one over there, one under there - SHE IS ONE.  The Bride is ONE.  Billions of people will DIE during that time. Jesus said it will be the WORST possible time that this earth has ever seen or ever will again. Oh, and don't think if you stay behind, you are going to be under "grace." The time of Jacob's Trouble is WORKS PLUS GRACE! You have to EARN your salvation. It will be an entirely different DISPENSATION!!! You can LOOSE your soul if you don't ENDURE to the END! Are you willing to take that chance? That chance of losing your eternal salvation because you don't ENDURE to the end? Locusts coming up out of the pit and stinging people with a pain that they want to die (and can't) that lasts for FIVE MONTHS!  You're really brave, huh? You're really BRAVE, are you?  I believe anyone who declines the rapture is delusional and prideful, and does not have the love of Jesus that they claim!  Think God has some "task" left for you to do,do you? Something he has assigned JUST FOR YOU? I think that is based on PRIDE -- P R I D E. Otherwise, you couldn't WAIT to see your Redeemer!  Not if you LOVE him as much as you say you do!!!  Want to stay behind? You love this world MORE than you love him. He has invited you to the grandest wedding gala of the ages and you are turning that down? You got rocks for brains. He isn't FIRST in your life. He isn't FIRST in your love.  The Body of Christ has no business here during the time of Jacob's Trouble.  Your place, if you really ARE saved is with the Bridegroom. Once we go UP, our work here is done! Finished!
 
Rene