Continued from last post.
Where is Jesus Christ right now? He is sitting at the right hand of God, and will stay there " henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool." {Hebrews 10:13} When will he make his enemies his footstool? When he returns to earth to destroy the Anti-christ and his kingdom, he will destroy the wicked, so Jesus is not leaving his Father's right hand to "rapture" us until then. There is not one verse in the whole bible that says the Lord can come at any time, not a one. We only know that he is coming "immediately after the tribulation" as Jesus said in Matt. 24:29, but we won't know the day or hour.
In Rev. 19, the pre trib raptured Church is not returning with the Lord, only the old and new testament saints, and the saints that were martyred during the tribulation along with the angels. Verse 7 says, "for the marriage of the Lamb IS come" {not HAD come 7 years earlier}. The end of that verse says, "and his wife hath made herself ready." How did she make herself ready? She caught cleaned up during the tribulation. Rev. 19, the marriage of the Lamb is about to take place because the Lord along with all the saints and the angels are coming to earth. Chapter 19 is not saying that the marriage already took place, the key words are "is come", not "had come" {present tense, not past tense}. The so called rapture may not be mentioned in chapter 19, but that doesn't mean anything, for the gathering {rapture} is mentioned in other places, John just didn't mention it in that chapter. The bible nowhere teaches that the Lord can come at anytime before the tribulation, it nowhere teaches that the Lord is coming FOR his saints and then 7 years later coming WITH his saints. The Lord's second coming is specific and singular, you don't see an "s" at the end of "coming" in any verses.
One more point I'd like to make, 1Thess. 4:14 says, "....even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him." If there was a pre-trib rapture, why would the Lord bring all those saints with him just to come to get us, and then make a u turn back up to heaven for another 7 years? Couldn't he and his angels come for us without bringing all those saints? People might say that all those saints are coming to get new bodys, and I'll say, are they coming to get new bodys just to go back to heaven which is a spiritual place? no, they are coming to get new bodys to rule and reign down here, not to go back to heaven for another 7 years. The pretrib rapture is just one of many false teachings.