Revelation 7: 13-17....Those unbelievers who survive "great tribulation" and are saved AFTER the Second Coming
13 Then one of the elders answered, saying to me (John), "These who are clothed in the white robes, who are they, and where have they come from?"
14 I (John)said to him, "My lord, you know." And he (Jesus)said to me (John), "These are the ones who come out of the "great tribulation", (non-Believers who were alive for 3.5 years + 3.5 years) and they (NOW) have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. (been saved after the Second Coming) 15 "For this reason, they are before the throne of God (1000 year rule and reign); and they (converts) serve Him (Jesus) day and night in His temple (in Jerusalem); and He who sits on the throne will spread His tabernacle (holy tent of protection) over them. 16 "They will hunger no longer, nor thirst anymore; nor will the sun beat down on them, nor any heat; 17 for the Lamb (Jesus) in the center of the throne will be their shepherd, and will guide them to springs of the water of life; and God will wipe every tear from their eyes."
?Rapture?...snatched / taken out / caught up / gathering together... God the Holy Spirit and Believers removed before/during/after the "great tribulation" of the End times ....supporting Scriptures.
Revelations 19: 11-16....The Rider on the White Horse 14 The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean.
To the Church in Philadelphia: Revelations 3:10... 10....I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole world to test those who live on the earth. 11 I am coming soon.
1 Thessalonians 1:10 10 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead—Jesus, who rescues us from the coming wrath
2 Thessalonians 2...The Anti-Christ revealed before the restaining of God the Holy Spirit removed
1 Now we request you, brethren, with regard to the (SECOND) coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our (C) "gathering together to" Him, RUMOR..."the day of the Lord" (already) has come. 3 Let no one in any way deceive you, for it "the day of the Lord" will not come unless (and until) THE apostasy (falling away) comes first, AND the man of lawlessness (Anti-Christ) is revealed, the son of destruction, 4 who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God.
Revelation 7: 13-17....Those unbelievers who survive "great tribulation" and are saved AFTER the Second Coming
(Excuse me, It really does NOT say, or even imply, AFTER the Second Coming! )
...............
"These are the ones who come out of the "great tribulation", (non-Believers who were alive for 3.5 years + 3.5 years) "
Sorry, it does NOT say non-Believers who were alive for 3.5 years + 3.5 years, and in the last chapter of Revelation there's dire warnings about adding anything or subtracting any thing from "the book of this prophecy. " Obviously not meaning we have to quote the whole book in our attempts to just determine meanings.
Thanks for posting a Pre-Trib Rapture theorist's impression, but we have to go strictly By the Book, word for word, and some of the "time" words in the Bible aren't meant to be taken literally, for instance those "70 weeks" of Daniel which turned out to be, I forget, 400+ years? The whole Trib may be more like 70 years of the tech age, including the American assassinations, because there's apparently at least one couple fitting descriptions of being under seige, and somewhere in Ezekiel, approximately chapter 37 (?), nobody can have any secrets from "the beast", Satan in sheeps' clothing posing as one of the angels of light. There's already been a 7-year accord that didn't work, if I remember correctly, as just a rank and file Christian woman, and I grant you maybe there will be another one, or maybe not. I think we're to watch for a concerted attack on Israel, which gets interrupted by our all seeing Jesus coming in the clouds (rather slowly?) followed by all the angels of heaven? Quoting only from memory, I may slightly misquote, so someone correct me if I'm wrong and we all know to not take anyone's word for anything in religion without checking the Bible ourselves.
There's 8 kings or heads, of state, remember, maybe not exactly consecutive, who're fooled by the lawless one and enable him, proving his mostly-covert reign is a lot more than 7 literal years. Rev. 13, and I think in chapter 17 they're called mountains. Standouts. Do you know Greek? I have a Teach Yourself book but have not made time to get into it. Are the words for 7 and for 70 very similar? So translators could very easily choose the wrong one if they forgot about these kings/heads of state?
You're Baptist, where the Left Behind theory originated, right?
The GREAT Tribulation obviously isn't ancient Rome, though that was bad enough. It's in the time of FLYING, and other modern technology. (Persecuted Christian woman whose house is made desolate of her children but whose OTHER children are all that pass the great loyalty test, FLIES somewhere on two wings of a GREAT eagle. Cross ref, short book of Micah re conspirators, voyeurs, at Lachish, which I've read is just an archeology dig now, plotting a way of corrupting a woman's body so as to LOOK UPON her. Would require modern technology, which certainly exists. God gives them up for a time, to uncleaness, some versions, until she that is in travail figures everything out (?) Makes her some kind of tower among the FLOCK. Rev. 12 is about the flock, and the same woman in both references, most likely. (She's not Mary or Israel or the whole church, because the clues would only fit an individual.)
Rome was bad enough, but the tech age is even worse. Watch for an attack on Israel. ("Pray for the peace of Jerusalem." Pray that those brought back from all the nations will not just get killed!)