When Harold Camping announced the rapture in 2011, an acquaintance of mine got caught up in the stampede. I tried to explain to him why it wasn't going to happen but he refused to let me "undermine his faith." Then, I pleaded with him to come see me after the appointed date and he said he'd be in heaven by then.
Of course, after the disappointment, he gave up on Christianity and was no longer interested in talking about it.
I will not extend the same offer to you because I don't know you; I will merely say that on September of this year THERE WON'T BE A RAPTURE!
Common sense tells me that there isn’t a rapture because the tribulation isn’t like “sinner marinade” where they get a warm up for what’s inevitably coming, it’s to separate wheat from chaff.
If I’m sending any thoughts and prayers up to the Lord, it’s to either ask to ease someone else’s burden or to give me the strength to weather whatever test it’s desired I pass to prove my acceptance of Christ is sincere.
A very minuscule few within the US can even remotely fathom what it means to be tested in faith like people living in totalitarian pestholes or heavy sharia states. Predictions and their failing to come to pass are ready made stumbling blocks for unseating weak believers before any tribulation. A Christian can be ready at any time, but even if there is some type of “rapture” it’s probably for ridiculous rock solid stalwarts that are practically living saints like people who’ve survived saving others without a seconds thought for saving themselves.
A tribulation is still going to validate a believer. The only thing you can’t undo in it is taking the mark and the existence of that circumstance alone, which you will have to voluntarily accept with full knowledge, is going to be validation of ones belief in and of itself. The Tribulation for Christians should be a signal to roll up ones sleeves, think “this will probably hurt” and get out there and make the Lord proud of you.