How many times will the answer to your question must be posted so that you actually read the replies? I, for one, am surprised at your willful denial of facts posted to you, and saddened by such, also. I thought better of you, Janey. Are you seven day Adventist cultist like Philsworld? You have been shown by whom, in what era, and yet you ask the same question already answered in more than one post on this very thread. If the instruments in your plane indicate that you are losing altitude, do you ignore the instruments because you don’t want to lose altitude?
It's almost humorous that Catholicism, for example, condemns believers in the Rapture but opens wide her arms for just about any claim of Marian apparitions, visions and dreams of "saints", mysterious powers of inanimate objects and so forth.
Ridiculous also is the accusation that believing in the Rapture of Christ's bride before the Tribulation is somehow "cheating" past martyrs of Christianity - as if there aren't millions of believers who have died natural deaths and entered into the joy of the Lord because of the grace of God through faith. Are they not allowed heaven because they haven't suffered enough??? Why in the time where the wrath of Almighty God is poured out upon the unbelieving, totally evil world would He want the Bride to experience that same wrath? Nobody denies that there has been terrible persecution of Christians since Christianity began and that Satan desires to sift us like wheat, but this will be different. For the first 3 1/2 years of the Tribulation, those who come to believe in Jesus as the promised Messiah will be hunted down and killed for their faith, that is what Scripture tells us will happen. But it is in the second half that God's righteous anger is poured out upon the earth. It's not Satan who will be pouring out the judgements.
Anyway, if someone doesn't want to believe in the Rapture, nobody says they HAVE TO! I won't condemn someone if they think differently about it. We will see who is right and who got it wrong one day and if it happens like I think it will, there'll be a number of shocked and happily surprised people I'll wave at as we make our way up to meet the Lord in the air and so shall we always be with the Lord. If it doesn't happen, then I will remain faithful because it is God who is working within us conforming us into the image of Christ. He is the author and perfecter of our faith. Either way we are His own and He will never leave us or forsake us so we can say with confidence: “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?”