There is no doubt that there is a "dead in Christ" rising event in the middle of the tribulation.
However, the tribulation involves the judgement on the church, the world and the Jews. According to Peter judgement must begin with the house of God.
According to Ephesians the church is the house of God. The rapture is a judgement, getting a gold medal at the olympics is a judgement just as much as being left behind is a judgement.
Several verses make no sense if the only rapture is mid tribulation and then after that is the wrath of God being poured out.
1. Philadelphia is told that the synagogue of Satan will come and worship at your feet and confess that God is truly with you. This strongly suggests the apostate church. However, Christians, even backslidden and apostate and heretical ones are not appointed to wrath. They should have already been decapitated, or martyred prior to this.
2. At the opening of the sixth seal the whole world realizes it is the Lord's judgment and the great day of the wrath of the Lamb has come. Notice, they say "lamb". This isn't simply some "end of the world" thing, but they know it is Jesus. The only apocalyptic event that would say "Jesus only" and that the book of Revelation is about to unfold is the rapture.
So yes, there is a pre 70th week rapture and there is a mid 70th week rapture.
However, the tribulation involves the judgement on the church, the world and the Jews. According to Peter judgement must begin with the house of God.
According to Ephesians the church is the house of God. The rapture is a judgement, getting a gold medal at the olympics is a judgement just as much as being left behind is a judgement.
Several verses make no sense if the only rapture is mid tribulation and then after that is the wrath of God being poured out.
1. Philadelphia is told that the synagogue of Satan will come and worship at your feet and confess that God is truly with you. This strongly suggests the apostate church. However, Christians, even backslidden and apostate and heretical ones are not appointed to wrath. They should have already been decapitated, or martyred prior to this.
2. At the opening of the sixth seal the whole world realizes it is the Lord's judgment and the great day of the wrath of the Lamb has come. Notice, they say "lamb". This isn't simply some "end of the world" thing, but they know it is Jesus. The only apocalyptic event that would say "Jesus only" and that the book of Revelation is about to unfold is the rapture.
So yes, there is a pre 70th week rapture and there is a mid 70th week rapture.
The two witnesses in Revelation 11 are dead but then they are resurrection by the act of them standing on their feet and then proceeding to heaven in a shout and in a cloud the same as 1 Thess 4:14-18. They have to be part of the 1st resurrection along with all the other saints that are part of the 1st resurrection as spoken of in Revelation 20.
The context of 1 Cor 15 is the resurrection.
1 Corr 15:42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
1 Corr 15:52 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.
Since we know the 2 witnesses are resurrected and there is only one resurrection of the just or 1st resurrection they are apart of this resurrection and why it makes sense that Rev 11:11-12 matches 1 Thess 4:14-18. Also note that 1 Thess 4:14 is the context of the resurrection from the word use of "rose".
1 Thess 4:14-17 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 15 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. 16 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: 17 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.
Revelation 11:11-12 matches these events.
Rev 11:11-12 11 And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them. 12 And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.
Rev 20:4-6 4 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. 5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. 6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
We do not want to be a part of the resurrection that happens at the end of the thousand years.