Wrong premise will yield wrong conclusion.
Pre-Trib and Mid-Trib Rapture is a teaching of man, not Scripture.

2 Thessalonians 2:1-3
Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

Paul is teaching that the gathering and the appearance would occur together, at the same time. Likewise, the Appearance is not pre-tribulational because the anti-Christ (man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition) must come first.


2 Thessalonians 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.

Paul places the Appearance in the last day(s) of the anti-Christ's life, for Paul shows the anti-Christ being destroyed by that Appearance:

Matthew 24:29-30
Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

The Appearance is not an invisible or secret pre-tribulation coming, as it is defined in Matthew 24:29-30 as the arrival of the Son of Man upon the clouds "after the tribulation of those days”

1 Thessalonians 5:1-4
But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

Pre-Tribulation Rapture presumes the Day of the LORD must arrive before the 70th Week because the Rapture must occur by surprise..."as a thief." Therefore the Church will be taken by surprise. But if this were true, why did Jesus give signs (to believers) of his Parousia, for signs are given that we (believers) might not be taken by surprise? Those who are slated to be taken by surprise like a thief in the night are those living in "darkness.", non-believers, not the Church.

1 Thessalonians 4:15-18
For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

The "voice of the archangel" is a reference to the post tribulation uprising of the archangel Michael in Daniel 12:1-2:


Daniel 12:1-2
And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to shame and everlasting contempt.

This is parallel with passages referring to the first resurrection.


Revelation 20:4-5
And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

Revelation Chapter 20:4-5 depicts the brutal killing of Christians by the anti-Christ. If Christians are seen being killed by the beast, then they must be enduring the tribulation while that occurs. Therefore, if they are killed in the tribulation, their subsequent resurrection must occur some time after the tribulation begins. Furthermore, because the resurrection of Christians who will live and die in the tribulation is called the "first resurrection," there could not by any means whatsoever be a resurrection prior to the tribulation.

Since the rapture is undeniably connected to the resurrection of the Church, there can be no such thing as a pre-tribulation rapture.