Ever notice that the 27 events mentioned in the Book of Revelation take way way longer than 7 years? Here are the main events listed in Revelation.... 7 seals, 7 trumpets, 3 woes, a time time and half a time (chap12)... 2 beasts Chapter 13, and 7 bowls. Several of these give a duration of time... but first look at the two events that declare they have no overlap... for they must be finished before the next can begin... Rev 9:12, 11;14. These are the 1st and 2nd woe which is included in the 5th and 6th trumpet. We are told that the first last 3.5 years and the 2nd lasts 5 months. Just these two events that have no overlap take up more than half of the 7 years... and the 1st beast of Rev 13 takes 3.5 years.... so now 3 events last 7 years 5 months and we still have 21 events left unaccounted for... How you do give answer to the hope that is in you, when that hope is founded on a bogus interpretation of Daniel's 70th week... which is the foundation of the bogus rapture concept that teaches the opposite of Christ? To suggest a rapture is to reject Christ. He directly taught that He comes after the tribulation... Matt 24:29-31. To teach the opposite and suggest that He comes prior is to teach the opposite of Christ. To teach the opposite of Christ is to be antichrist... John tells us that they come from within the church...1 John 2:18,19. We must believe Jesus to be saved. Paul directly called the event 'The Resurrection of the dead'... 1 Cor 15;42-55, which is what he didn't want us ignorant about in 1 Thess 4:13-18. When Paul declares that he is revealing a mystery in verse 50,51, that mystery is how people are changed at the event he directly called "the resurrection of the dead". The terms "rapture" and 'second coming" do not exist in Scripture but were created to divide the "resurrection of the dead" into multiple events. The resurrection of the dead is not some new event revealed by Paul, but declared as early as Job 14:12... where we are told that it occurs when the heavens are destroyed. Jesus references Job in Matt 24;35-43, Mark 13:31,32 and tells us that the heavens will be destroyed and of THAT DAY, no man knows the day or the hour. Peter refers to Christ and tells us that Jesus comes like a thief in the night when the heavens are destroyed with a great noise...2 Peter 3:10. Those martyred for not taking the mark are resurrected at the FIRST resurrection... Rev 20:4-6. These passages destroy the notion of a rapture. Every argument for a rapture is birthed n deception