Point to one verse stating a gathering of believers before the Tribulation.
I'll wait.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 72341210 2 Thessalonians is one place you could start... you confuse Pauls message to the gentiles with Christ's message to the priesthood... Peter was looking for tribulation... Paul was looking for rapture... learn to rightly divide the word of truth.. what was true for the priesthood is not true for the body of Christ...
No Buddy, you opened this can of worms. You have a responsibility now to soecifically show me the verse and do exigesis showing that Christians will be raptured BEFORE tribulation.
Show me.
1 Thess:4
13 I would not brethren, have you ignorant concerning they which are asleep, that ye sorrow not even as others which have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus is dead, and is risen, even so them which sleep in Jesus, will God bring with him.
15 For this say we unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which live, and are remaining in the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them which sleep.
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, and with the voice of the Archangel, and with the trumpet of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then shall we which live and remain, be caught up with them also in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
18 Wherefore, comfort yourselves one another with these words.
2 Thess:2
1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our assembling unto him,
2 That ye be not suddenly moved from your mind, nor troubled neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter, as it were from us, as though the day of Christ were at hand.
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a departing first, and that [h]that man of sin be disclosed, even the son of perdition.
4 Which is an adversary, and exalteth himself against all that is called God, or that is worshipped: so that he doth sit as God in the Temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
1 Corinthians 15:51
Behold, I show you a secret thing, We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye at the last trumpet: for the trumpet shall blow, and the dead shall be raised up incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
Only Paul teaches these truths...
