Oh yeah. Have read them many times. There is nothing there that gives a time for the "pretrib rapture" but if you compare these verses together they might be very enlightening. But I have found several people who simply refuse to learn...
1 Corinthians 15:52 (KJV)
[SUP]52 [/SUP]In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
Revelation 8:5-6 (KJV)
[SUP]5 [/SUP]And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.
[SUP]6 [/SUP]And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.
Revelation 10:7 (KJV)
[SUP]7 [/SUP]But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
Revelation 11:15 (KJV)
[SUP]15 [/SUP]And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.
If Revelation is in chronological order, this could not take place if all Christians were "pretribulation" raptured because it occurs in the midst of the 7th trumpet. But, of course, if it is true to the Left Behind series of movies, these would be the ones left behind and come to salvation during the tribulation. But in Revelation 7:4 where the 144,000 are sealed, that takes place in the midst of the 6th seal judgment. Then they appear again in Revelation 14, but it doesn't say when during the tribulation that 1 Cor. 15:52 happens. Matt 24 says we will know the signs. And no one knows when all this will transpire except the Father Himself.
Matthew 24:36 (KJV)
[SUP]36 [/SUP]But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
Revelation 13:7 (KJV)
[SUP]7 [/SUP]And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
One last question, for now: if Christians are going to miss all the bad stuff, why are we told so much about the sequence of events from the very beginning of sorrows?
I would also like to recommend a series of three books that deal with this subject in great detail: "Lost In Translation" by Adam Spears and John Klein.