Ice, just a few suggestions for your consideration.

There are THREE festivals that call for the gathering. Passover, Pentecost and Tabernacles. Just as there are three times, consider there may be three parts to the taking up during the course of the tribulation. Each would have it's own specific timing/meaning. Don't get to caught up in the time element. After all, there were many who were risen with Christ in 30AD and surely that still is part of the 1st resurrection.

It's possible that the fact so many see a pre, mid and post trib snatching away is simply because they all are true as opposed to the idea that only one sect can see clearly.

I also want to suggest that in Matthew 24, Jesus only takes us up to the 6th seal, not because it is Armageddon, but because this is all that is relevant to Christians heading into the Great Tribulation. Once he has us to this point, we are set to be gathered together.

Note the true turning point is this Abomination of Desolation and Gods obvious intervention that soon follows. The Sign of the son of Man is clearly the 6th Seal. We will see this before we go whether there be 1290 days, 7 years or 23 years remaining to Armageddon.

I submit that the 2 witnesses, the 144,000 and any that remain at Armageddon all have their times too. To simply have one escape would leave us with concluding that it must be at the very end. If we can see more than one escape then God can offer mercy more than once as the process unfolds.