If you believe believers have His Holy Spirit in their human spirit then several things are strongly implied, not the least of which is that the salt has been restraining the onslaught of the lawless one, AND that because the dead in Christ have His Life in their spirit (1 John 3:9) it is they who God brings with Jesus from Heaven to gather the dead and alive unto Himself with new bodies fit for eternal existence in a physical body.
If people think that the Church must go through the Great Tribulation, then they’re taking away from the immanency of the return of Jesus Christ, the very reason He told us to watch..... We’d would instead be watching for the Great Tribulation and the unveiling of the Antichrist and not Jesus’ return.
Nowhere does Scripture indicate Christians we are to look for Antichrist even if he is revealed, since the bride adores her husband and has eyes only for Him, making herself ready for His coming...... The Church would then know exactly when he’s coming since he gave us 7 years from the time of the signing of the peace treaty with Israel and 1260 days after the abomination of desolation in the temple, until his coming. ...This is reserved for the tribulation saints....
This is why Jesus said in Mt.24 he who endures to the end will be saved. Those in that generation that see all the signs mentioned that occur in the same time period will have the hardest time of all to make it to the end when He comes back.