Plain as day! This passage gave me such trouble in my pre-trib days, as I could never reconcile how verse 31 was not the rapture, but rather some other gathering. And that the rapture had occured ealier in the passage, but was not mentioned. I kept having to look at charts and commnnetaries for the explanation, for that explanation is not in the scripture!
When I decided to accept the scripture for what it says, instead of forcing a theory on it, it was liberating, and the scripture became as plain as it could be. Then I truly understood Jesus' admonition “Watch out that no one deceives you." and later Paul's warining in 2 Thess 2:3 Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessnessa is revealed, the man doomed to destruction.
The scripture is obvious for those who study it for themselves!
Those who deny the rapture of the church make either Daniel or Jesus out to be a liar. Daniel gave a specific number of days from when the antichrist sets himself up in the temple to when Christ returns. Even those who deny the rapture of the church can’t deny that. Yet they also will, with great enthusiasm, proclaim we will not know the day or the hour of Christ’s return.
Daniel 12:11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
It doesn’t take a math wiz to understand when Christ will return after “the daily sacrifice shall be taken away”.
So for you who deny the rapture which is it. Was Jesus wrong or Daniel?