“I do not see any “rapture” there.”
Maybe because you don’t want to??? Because it is clearly there...
“Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air”
“...caught up together with them in the clouds”
noone is so blind as he who refuses to see.
“Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man” (Luke 21:36).
This verse seems to indicate that escape isnt just a hopeful pipe dream as some suggest, but an actual an option.
Not to mention these:
“And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come” (1 Thessalonians 1:10).
“For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Thessalonians 5:9).
“Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth “ (Revelation 3:10).