“Come up hither!” and the two witnesses arose to the astonishment of the world and then were taken to heaven(from revelation) I have often wondered that the rest of the church(the dead first then those who are alive next) will rise with them.
Before them. Before the Tribulation with the lawless one revealed even begins. The two witnesses (one a gentile the other a Jew) will be raptured at mid-trib. We can surmise this because the ‘strong delusion’ is already at work in that day.