This is the scripture most often referred to regarding the rapture. Other references to the rapture are mostly implied. Believers will not be left to experience the great tribulation because we are not subject to the Lord's wrath, which is what the great tribulation is.
David Jeremiah has excellent prophecy teachings and he addresses everything with great detail.
“Believers will not be left to experience the great tribulation because we are not subject to the Lord’s wrath, which is what the great tribulation is.”
Please see post #31.
The Great Tribulation is distinct from the Day of the Lord, which is the time of God’s wrath being poured out on the earth. This is also the time period of the second coming of Christ.
The Great Tribulation begins with a false peace/deception, and then proceeds to war, famine, and disease, and persecution of believers. God does NOT promise to deliver Christians from these things. Indeed, we are promised we will endure tribulation and persecution. What believers will NOT experience is God’s wrath. But the Day of the Lord/Day of wrath is a time period that follows the Great Tribulation.
the rapture definitely happens but not secretly, 7 years prior to Christ’s return. WE, as believers, are the light of the world and are to go out and spread the Gospel. There’s no way God plucks us out and leaves billions of people to grope in the dark.