But this doesn't happen BEFORE the "tribulation." It happens AFTER the opening of the first six seals (Revelation 5 and 6), AFTER the anti-christ persecutes the saints with great tribulation (Matthew 24:29, see parallels in Mark 13 and Luke 21).
I hate sloppy exegesis. Calling all of Daniel's 70th week "the tribulation" is unbiblical. The Bible lays out a different timeline: man of sin is revealed, [great] *tribulation* of the saints, christ returns for his own and to pour *wrath*. Jesus and his resurrected saints conquer the anti-christ and the beast at end of this 7 year period (see Revelation 19) and sets up his millennial kingdom (Revelation 20).
This is what is called the "post tribulation (corrected terminology), pre-wrath" rapture of the saints. This understanding is a best fit to the relevant scriptures and laid out in this video: After the Tribulation.
Disclaimer: I am not an Alex Jones fan.
It is you who are in error regarding Daniel’s seventieth week. THAT week is called ‘the time of Jacob’s Trouble. It intensifies after the abomination that makes desolate. But the entire seven years are the Tribulation. The last 3 1/2 years are The Great Tribulation. During the first half of the seven years, it is the Jews who will be evangelizing the entire World. The entire seven years will be an increasing degree of God’s wrath. At first, it will seem to be the wrath of men, of the man of sin. But when the man of sin commits the abomination that makes desolate, mid-tribulation, THEN the wrath intensifies to such a degree that it is clearly the wrath of God, and men will curse God for it, rather than turn to Him for salvation.