The rapture is strictly a church event. It does not have any place in the prophecy given to Israel regarding the end times. This is why it should be place at the very beginning of the tribulation period. the tribulation is all about Israel and not the church.
If you are not a born again person you have nothing in the rapture.
The world will notice after the fact that the rapture has occurred. They will explain it as alien abduction of something like that but God has said that they will receive strong delusion that they will believe the lie.
For the cause of Christ
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Rev 5:9 And they sung a song new, saying: Worthy thou art to receive the scroll, and to open the seals of it; because thou wast slain, and didst buy back for the God us with the blood of thee out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation;
Is the martyrdom only about Israel?
Rev 6:9 And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those having been killed because of the word of the God, and because of the testimony which they held;
Rev 6:10 and they cried with a voice great, saying: How long, the sovereign the holy one and true one, not thou judgest and avengest the blood of us from those dwelling on the earth?
Rev 6:11 And was given to them a robe white, and it was said to them, that they should rest yet a time, till should be completed also the fellow-slaves of them and the brethren of them, those being about to be killed as even they.
Is this only about Israel?
Rev 6:12 And I saw when he opened the seal the sixth, and an earthquake great was, and the sun black became as sackcloth of hair, and the moon whole became as blood,
Rev 6:13 and the stars of the heaven fell to the earth, as a fig-tree casts the untimely figs of her by a wind great being shaken,
Rev 6:14 and the heaven was separated from as a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island out of the places of themselves were moved;
Rev 6:15 and the kings of the earth and the great ones and the commanders and the rich ones and the strong ones, and every bondman and every freeman hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains,
Rev 6:16 and they say to the mountains and to the rocks: Fall you on us, and hide you us from face of the one sitting on the throne, and from the wrath of the lamb;
Rev 6:17 because came the day the great of the wrath of him; and who is able to stand?
Only Israel?
Rev 7:9 After these things I saw, and lo a crowd great, which to have numbered him no one was able, out of every nation and of tribes and of peoples and of tongues, standing in presence of the throne and in presence of the lamb, having been clothed robes white, and palms in the hands of them;
I think Christ summed it up here...
Rev 3:7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;
Rev 3:8 I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.
Rev 3:9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
Rev 3:10
Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
The only occurrence that fits this description is the Great Tribulation.
Rev 3:11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.
Rev 3:12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
Rev 3:13
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
Israel? or the church?
Ooops, got a little trigger happy there and hit reply before I was finished. Anyhoo, tie in Rev 3:10 with this...
Rev 12:14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
Rev 12:15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
Rev 12:16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
Protection in a place of safety not a rapture to heaven.
