It's not surprising that some of you know so little of the scriptures...What is surprising that you would comment on the scriptures that you must know you know so little about...
After the Rapture of the church, there's going to be billions of people left on the Earth...There's going to be tons and tons of Catholics...
And at that time, there may be some who can't find many of their friends and relatives who seem to have mysteriously disappeared who have heard about the Rapture and spoke and taught against it...Likely they then will be looking around for a guy associated with the number 666...
“What is surprising that you would comment on the scriptures that you must know you know so little about...”
I was not commenting on the scriptures, I was commenting on Irenaeus, who was commenting on the scriptures (Rev. 13:18).
As to the rest of your post, it is based on an assumption, a pre-trib rapture is assumed in the scenario you described. An assumption neither I, nor Irenaeus, would agree with.