When Paul penned his letter to the Thessalonians, the destruction of Jerusalem had not yet happened AND the Revelation of John had not been written. It is doubtful that Paul would have referred the Thessalonian believers to something that had not even been written yet. Look for another source as having a ‘last trumpet sound’ ...
Where I'm coming from is: I'm Jewish, a Messianic Jew (and I've argued that point with people here). I've had relatives that went through the Holocaust as well as relatives that didn't. The ones that didn't suffered psychological guilt of not having been caught up in it and escaped before being arrested and managed to get to America.
From my perspective then. If the Rapture is true and it happens I for one would not want to be "caught up" like that and would want to suffer through the Tribulation for one reason and one reason alone and that is: So you get Raptured and are up there with the saints of old and you get into a discussion and are asked by one of them "So, how were your martyred for your faith in Yeshua? I was martyred in Rome in the Colosseum by being torn apart by lions, and Seth over there was dipped in tar along with a few hundred other Christians and lit on fire to illuminate the road to Nero's house; so how were you martyred?" You might say "Well I just finished shopping at Safeway after picking up the kids from soccer and driving my SUV to McDonald's when 'whoosh' I'm here." The saint talking to you gets this puzzled look and says "But were you killed? Torn apart by this McDonald? And this SUV that you speak of, did it attack you and crush you?"
This is what I mean. I could not face the early saints who were killed sometimes in the most horrific manner and speak with them with a straight face after living a life of pretty much no want or cruelty because of my faith in Yeshua.