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“Then in Rev 7:13 one of the elders/the Church in Heaven explains the ones in white robes are they who came out of the great tribulation and washed their raiment in the blood to be white as snow, showing us that the Church is in Heaven and some are being saved during the Tribulation that are not of the Church taken out in t he Rapture before the Tribulation begins..”

The answer to that may be the 144,000 who are sealed:

Revelation 7

http://biblehub.com/kjv/revelation/7.htm

Amen, Brother! We are saved by The Grace of God. God would not pour out His wrath on those to whom He has given His Grace and put His Holy Spirit in them to raise them up in the way that they should go.

Paul taught the imminency of the Rapture to the Thessalonians and the Galatians and the Corinthians. He probably taught it everywhere he established an ekklesia. He himself was expecting it. Thanks be to God, the Rapture has been withheld for 2000 years while Jews and Gentiles have been born from above by the Grace of God in Christ.

It was not until most of the Apostles had been martyred and the Jews dispersed from the land that God saw fit to deliver the road map of future events to John on Patmos. But Paul wrote in his letters tot he Thessalonians that they were to comfort one another with the scene of the Rapture of the believers.

"...showing us that the Church is in Heaven and some are being saved during the Tribulation that are not of the Church taken out in t he Rapture before the Tribulation begins..”"

Amen.Then we will come back with Jesus at the end of the tribulation... "And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints..." (Jude v14), "Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not."(Malachi 3:16-18)

"For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock." (Psalm 27:5)