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Christians never believed or taught about any pre-trial "rapture" before 1830. Even if you strain to find something, you'll only find hints no earlier thant the late 1700s, but no more

But there is nothing about a 7 year tribulation in Scripture and was never taught by the Apostles hence not in Tradition either.

There is no doubt that the gospel teaches about a coming Anti-Christ, a final war (a tribulation of sorts), and there is no direct teachings by the Apostles about something as important as a "secret Rapture".

Copying the below from a post by aruanan

as Jesus said, (numbers here to show temporal succession--that means, what happens first, then second, then third, and so on) to quote him at length before summarizing:

"For then shall be

1) great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, I have told you before. Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.* For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.

2) Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the

3) Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and

4) they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
--Matthew 24

To recap:

1. ...then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

2. Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened...

3. ...then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

4. ...he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

Now let's boil it down a bit more so we don't get lost in all the words (notice that I didn't overuse capital letters):

1. Great tribulation such as has never been seen or will be seen.
2. Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven, seen by everyone on earth.
3. Sound of trumpet and angels collecting elect throughout the earth.

And now again:

1. Great tribulation.
2. Jesus returns.
3. Trumpet sounded. (see 1 Corinthians 15:52).
4. Angels sent.
5. Believers gathered. (see 1 Corinthians 15:23)

Compare it with your statement above: The rapture of the church, the body of Christ, must precede the tribulation in order that all of God's Word be fulfilled. According to Jesus's own word (such as Paul claimed), you've got events exactly backwards.

Of the ten best known, born-again evangelists in the world, at this time, all without exception (to our knowledge) are convinced by God’s Word that the Rapture will come before the Antichrist is revealed and the Tribulation begins.

One could make a good case from Jesus's own description of rumors of a secret limited return (he's here or he's there or he's out here in a desert location or he's in here in the secret chamber or the more recent "Hey, Jesus is going to come back secretly before the tribulation and antichrist and whisk all the believers away and those who are left will be wondering where they all went." ) that the so-called secret pre-trib rapture is one of those doctrines of the false Christs and false prophets that Jesus warned us about.