BUT NOT BECAUSE OF A RAPTURE. BECAUSE WE WILL BE PROTECTED LIKE NOAH AND LOT ETC. They weren't taken away or removed from the earth. They believed YHWH and trust in YHWH.
Isaiah 43:11 -- I, even I, am YHWH; and beside Me there is no saviour.
Isaiah 47:4 - Our Redeemer, YHWH of hosts is His name, The Holy One of Israel.
Psalm 146:3 - Put not your trust in Princes, nor in the Son of Man, in whom there is no help.
Isaiah 49:26 And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine; and all flesh shall know that I YHWH am thy Saviour, and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
And so have you bothered to read any of the articles ?
While your belief that the Church will be protected, but go through, the Tribulation period on the outside has a sense of appeal and sounds good (your analogy of Noah, Lot) ... it demonstrates a fundamental lack of understand of the PURPOSE of the Tribulation. The purpose of the Tribulation is
1. The judgement of the unbelieving world
2. Evangelization of the world
3. Conversion of Israel
Romans 11:25 For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery--so that you will not be wise in your own estimation--that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,
Revelation teaches that many who are saved during the tribulation will be killed because of their faith. Do you really believe that we will be protected during the tribulation (because Noah and Lot were), but those who don't believe until the tribulation are out of luck?