"Popular expectations surrounding the return of Christ and the gathering of his people are tied in with a period of ’Seven Years’ Tribulation. Some feel Christ will first take his church secretly before these seven years (Pre-Tribulation); some feel it will be in the middle (Mid-Tribulation); some after (Post-Tribulation).

Just what would happen in this great tribulation? Do we know how long it would last? Why do some Christians believe Christ first comes secretly to take his saints before the worst of it? Jesus, in fact, does come like a ’thief in the night’ and faithful Christians are admonished not to be spiritually asleep so they would not know the ’day of the Lord’ had arrived (1 Thessalonians 5:1-6). Thieves do not enter a house with trumpets or shouts. That is why Paul, when talking about Jesus descending from ’heaven with a shout’...and with the ’trump of God,’ is warning God’s people that they should not be spiritually sleeping. ’Therefore let us not sleep as do others’..." Excerpts from Waiting for the Rapture

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