First, I am NOT anti-rapture, I don't believe in PRE-escapism rapture.
If your interpretation is true, then, WHO are the SAINTS that the antichrist prevails over, AFTER you folks have 'left'?
Are all the infants and children going to be pre-tribbed with the 'body'? You honestly believe that NO ONE ELSE goes to Heaven after the pre-trib event?
Why would the AC need the mark, then? All those left are hell-bound, anyway?
Pre-trib 'delusion' is powerful, and, I know who sent it and why...
2Th 2:8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming.
2Th 2:9 Even Him, whose coming is AFTER the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
2Th 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
2Th 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
2Th 2:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 23320653 1-- Escapism? Then Jesus taught us this "escapism", because it was he who said he'd come back for us, and Paul who said we'd be "snatched up" by Jesus, all BEFORE God rains down his wrath on the unbelieving world.
2-- If you had bothered to read what's been posted here in many places, you'd already know that "saints" and "elect" are not church-exclusive terms. They were used before us, and will be used after us.
3-- And you think I'm the one making erroneous presumptions, while you think I don't believe children will be raptured? Children cannot grasp rebellion against God, and this time of JUDGMENT thus does not apply to them.
4-- No, all those left are NOT hellbound. Many will be saved after the Rapture, but those who take the mark will be doomed, as the mark is a pledge of loyalty to the Beast and his kingdom.
5-- Delusion? Just for disagreeing with you? What arrogance!
