The false view of the rapture....The rapture will not occur until the middle of the tribulation,thus forcing the entire church to go threw the first 3 and 1half years of Gods wrath. This theory is called a mid-tribulation and is refuted by paul in 1 Thessalonians 5:9 where he says FOR GOD HATH NOT QPPOINTED US TO WRATH" That rapture will not occur until the end of the tribulation. This known is POST TRIBULATION, and is refuted by 1 thessalonians 5:9 and Rev. 3:10. NOW...tHE NEW TESTOMONT pitchures the Church as the body of Christ. If the mid-tribulation veiw were correct,then a part of this body would suffer amputation, and a section of the bride would be left behind. In addition to this. one would be forced to conclude that all bodies of carnal departed Christians would likewise be left in the grave. This simply is not the clear teaching of God. The Bible teaches that the rapture is pre-tribulationional in nature and includes all believers, Romans 5:9 and 1 thessalonians 1:10. Perhaps the strongest proof of this statement is the fact mentioned many times, but from chapture 6 of Rev. the church is maentioned many times,but from chapter 6-19 (the period of the tribulatin_) there is no mention of the church on earth. IN fact the only group which Saton can find to persecute is the nation Israel!! See Rev. 12-----------------Rev. 4:1 John declares "After this I looked, behold a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said Come up hither....We are told that Christians are Gods ambassadors on earth(2cor.5:20) and that he will someday declare war on this earth..The first thing that a president does after he declares war on another country is to call his ambassadars home!!!!! Thus we conclude that the church will escape the tribulation....