Study the bible and one will find the Rapture has been there all along...
Those of us who believe in the Rapture had studied the scriptures...Seems no one who rejects the Rapture can address those scriptures that reveal the Rapture...
Obviously Paul the apostle believed in the Rapture since he wrote about it...And no doubt many after him believed in it...Obviously the idea was suppressed by the Catholic religion...The Rapture is detrimental to the Catholic religion...
The Rapture clearly wasn't intended to take place until God was done with the Gentiles...It appears that that prophecy is coming to fruition so there was no need that God reveal the prophecy of the Rapture on a world wide scale until the reality of it was in the neighborhood...
In addition, most of the evidence for the tribulation and rapture are found in Ezekiel and Daniel if they are studied closely.
In the NT, Christ clearly teaches that his return is imminent, not one thing more has to happen before His return for His people. If we are to go through the tribulation, then His return can in no way be imminent, the tribulation has to happen first. There are many other reasons I believe there will be a pre-trib rapture, and not one of them comes from fictional books, although I believe LaHaye got it pretty close to the way it will happen.
Obviously Paul the apostle believed in the Rapture since he wrote about it...And no doubt many after him believed in it...