Your frustration that others here are content with what they believe regarding the coming of Christ for His people is apparent.....so why should it bother you so as those posting are quite aware of what will occur in the tribulation for God has clearly revealed that to all?
>I realize pretribs are content with what they believe. I know, for I was once pretrib myself.
As to what “bothers” me: it bothers me just like other false doctrines bother me, and need to be called out for what they are...man made doctrines, or as in one of my posts here, the “private interpretatioons” of men.
.....”As to what “bothers” me: false doctrines bother me, and need to be called out for what they are...man made doctrines”......
Rapture Doctrine is based on scripture.....as written in Thessalonians 4:13–18, which teaches the doctrine of the rapture ...and The truth of it is Certain.
“For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage each other with these words.”..I Thessalonians 4:13–18
After Paul’s teaching on the rapture, the very next topic
beginning in 5:2 is the Day of the Lord, the day of His wrath at the second coming. The sequence of events favors the pre-tribulational view, which holds that the rapture is first, followed by the Tribulation in which God pours out His judgment on the unbelieving world, climaxed by Christ’s second coming.
Only the believer in the pre-tribulational rapture can really believe that Jesus could come at any moment. There aren’t any further signs given in Scripture to look for prior to the rapture. The signs in God’s Word regarding the end times are signs of Christ’s second coming, not signs of the rapture.
Additionally 1 Corinthians 15:52 tells us that this will
happen “in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye.”
There is going to be a resurrection of the dead, then a rapture of the living. Living saints are going to receive new bodies as they are caught up to be with the Lord.
This is where I stand.
However what is important is that all Christians hold in common that Christ will ultimately return bodily, visibly, and gloriously to reign and rule with His resurrected and transformed saints forever and ever. The details of this great event will be made known in God’s own time.