Greetings Hizikyah!
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1 Thessalonians 4:13-18, “Now, brothers, we do not wish you to be ignorant concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you be sad as others who have no expectation. For if we believe that יהושע died and rose again, so also Yah shall bring with Him those who sleep in יהושע. For this we say to you by the word of the Master, that we, the living who are left over at the coming of the Master shall in no way go before those who are asleep. Because the Master Himself shall come down from heaven with a shout, with the voice of a chief messenger, and with the trumpet of Yah, and the dead in Messiah shall rise first. Then we, the living who are left over, shall be caught away together with them in the clouds to meet the Master in the air – and so we shall always be with the Master. So, then, encourage one another with these words."
1 Corinthians 15:51-55, “See, I speak a secret to you: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible has to put on incorruption, and this mortal to put on immortality. And when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall come to be the word that has been written, “Death is swallowed up in overcoming. O Death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your overcoming?”
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The two scriptures above are referring to the same event, the gathering of the church, dead and living. The scripture below is a separate event which is the Lord's return to the earth to end the age. The "trumpets" that you have highlighted in both 1 Thes.4:13-18, 1 Cor.15:52 are not the same trumpet as the one in Matt.24:31. You are simply interpreting them as being the same because thy both have the word "trumpet" in them.
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Mat 24:29-31, “And immediately after the distress of those days the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give its light, and the stars shall fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. And then the sign of the Son of Aḏam shall appear in the heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth shall mourn, and they shall see the Son of Aḏam coming on the clouds of the heaven with power and much esteem. And He shall send His messengers with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together His chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.”
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In 1 Thes.4:18, after Paul gives a detailed account of the gathering of the church, at the end he then says, "So, then, encourage one another with these words." Well, if you have the church being gathered after the tribulation, which is God's tribulation, His time of wrath via the seals, trumpets and bowl judgments, then believers could not encourage one another with the hope of being gathered because you have us going through the wrath of God first, which scripture states that we are not appointed to suffer.
Further more, the "Last trumpet" is a blessed event for the church, where the 7th trumpet of the trumpet judgments is a plague of wrath, but you have made them the same by your interpretation.
If you do not recognize 1 Thes.4:13-18 vs. Matt.24:29-31 as being separate events, then your interpretation of end-time events will always be in error.
The appearing of the Lord and our being gathered to Him is "the blessed hope," which it would not be if the church first has to go through God's wrath.
Think about this: Every one who has come to Christ has been credited with righteousness and has been reconciled to God. Jesus has tasted the wrath of God for every believer, satisfying it completely. Therefore, when you say that we the church are to go through God's wrath, you are really not believing that God's wrath was poured out on Christ. You say you believe in what Christ did, but by your claim you deny it.
The "last trumpet" is not the same as the "7th trumpet," as the only thing they have in common is the word "trumpet."
When reading Matt.24 remember to always include the seals, trumpets and bowl judgments as taking place during that same time period, which is the wrath of God. Also by the mentioning of the abomination being set up in the temple, the offerings and sacrifices being stopped, those fleeing to the mountains of Judea, all of these are in reference to the nation Israel and not the church.
In addition, Rev.19:11-21 is a detailed account of Matt.24:29-31 when the Lord returns to the earth to end the age and establish His millennial kingdom. Regarding this, if you will notice in Rev.19:6-8 the bride/church is shown to be in heaven receiving her fine linen, white and clean at the wedding of the Lamb, which demonstrates that the church is already in heaven during the time of God's wrath upon the earth. Then in Rev.14 it shows the armies of heaven following the Lord out of heaven wearing that same fine linen, white and clean that he bride/church will have just received, demonstrating that the bride/church is following the Lord out of heaven to the earth to end the age. Therefore, how can you say that the church is gathered when Christ returns to the earth, when scripture shows the church is following Christ out of heaven and returning to the earth with Him?
You misapply scriptures by not recognizing the difference between the gathering of the church vs. the Lord's return to the earth to end the age. These are two different events.