when the rapture will take place
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5. If the saints are raptured to heaven before the time of trouble, why did Jesus say in Matthew 24:22, "For the elect's sake those days will be shortened." The word elect means "chosen ones" and in scripture it refers to saved people, both Jew and Gentile. (Matt. 24:24, 31 & Luke 18:7). Also in Romans 8:33 and Colossians 3:12, Paul refers to Gentile saints as "God's elect."
The anti-Christ and his kingdom of Babylon are destroyed in Revelation chapter 18, before the marriage supper of the Lamb which is told of in Revelation 19:1-9.
7. According to II Thessalonians 2:1-4 "the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him"(the rapture) cannot occur "unless the falling away comes first and the man of sin (anti-Christ) is revealed" and "stands in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God."
7. According to II Thessalonians 2:1-4 "the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him"(the rapture) cannot occur "unless the falling away comes first and the man of sin (anti-Christ) is revealed" and "stands in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God."