The Church, the body of believers, is not instructed to watch for signs of the coming antichrist. We are instructed to be alert to the sudden, unannounced snatching away to be with the Lord in the Father's House. This is the doctrine of 'imminence' tqaught by the Apostles and Jesus Himself. This imminent return of Jesus is our blessed hope. It is not a blessing for the non-believers, however. For non-believers this event of snatching away His Bride willstart the Day of The Lord counting down, and the increasing wrath of GOD upon the unbelievers. A number so great no many can number it will then call out to the Lord for salvation and be brought out of the tribulation years into Heaven. But hese saved during the tribulation are not the Church, the Ekklesia, the Bride of Christ snatched away before the tribulation begins.
1 Thess 1:9&10 assures believers that they are already numbered as the escapees due to Jesus delivering them from the wrath to come.
[ There are powerful signs that the seventieth week of Daniel’s prophecy for Israel is ‘at hand’, like the birth of the modern nation of Israel and Jews from around the world coming ‘back home’ at what is prophesied as ‘the end times’. ]
Correct.