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There will be those who do not go up in the Rapture because they did not know Christ as Savior before that event. They will go into the Tribulation, and, as Scripture tells us, will be saved after the Rapture but will have to go through the Tribulation. These people are not those who accepted Christ during the Church age, but receive Him after the Tribulation has begun. Those people, along with Jews who come to Christ during that time, are the Christians who will be on earth at the physical return of Christ.

The Rapture cannot be considered a "return" because Christ does not come to earth at that event but catches His bride to Himself and takes us back to "where He (is)", which is Heaven. So the Rapture is not a return of Christ.

And no, neither you nor I nor anyone will know the day or the time of the Rapture, but Jesus does command us to watch for Him as we see the prophesied signs He gave coming to pass, and we are to know the season we are in. That is a commandment.

And the passage you gave from Matthew is proof positive of a pre-trib Rapture - in the Rapture Christ Himself comes for His bride; after the Tribulation is complete, He sends angels to collect those who have become saved during the Tribulation.

Two separate events, with two separate methods of collecting His own.

I respect your right to interpret this as you think best, but I’m not convinced of your interpretation....I’ll just have faith that my belief that he is indeed the son and gave himself for our sins will get me through. In the meantime I’ll keep plodding through scripture for further understanding.