The "Church?"

It has been stated in II Thessalonians chapter 2 that our assembling to meet the Lord in the air - typically refered to as The Rapture (before The Millennium) - will NOT PRECEDE the appearing of The Lawless One (i.e. The Antichrist). In other words, The Rapture will not occur BEFORE the Lawless One is revealed. Put another way, the Lawless One must be revealed before The Rapture occurs. In other words, The Antichrist must be revealed FIRST (before The Rapture occurs)......according to an obvious and logical understanding of the Scriptural words of Second Thessalonians chapter 2.

That means that the saints of the church (Gr. ekklesian and ekklesias) will not arise to meet the Lord in the skies BEFORE The Antichrist is revealed. Those Greek words are where we get the English word "ecclesiastical" and they simply mean an assembly of Christian saints, whether in a church building or not in a church building, whether in a synod or not in a synod, whether in a diocese or not in a diocese, whether registered by the State or not registered by the State, whether locally or nationally or globally, whether blood descendants of Abe and Zack and Jake or instead non-semitic types. It is merely another way of conceptualizing whatever assembly of Christian saints exists - no more and no less.

Crucial to PRE-Tribulation rapture heresy of the heretics who espouse that heresy is a concocted and falsely-imagined concept of what and who "the church" is. The only reference to the Greek word for "church" in the gospels is the 16th and 18th chapter of Matthew. The book of Acts and the epistles of the apostles contain the word "church" as do the first three chapters of Revelation........plus the LAST chapter (chapter 22) of Revelation, where Jesus the Divine author [thus] qualifies everything previously mentioned in Revelation as pertinent for and testimony to "the churches."

There is absolutely no reason nor cause to presume (not assume) that "the church" (of Christians) must only be comprised of non-semitic non-Israeli non-Jewish (i.e. gentile) Christians. There is similarly no cause to believe that gentile Christian saints will be whisked away up yonder before and/or apart from Jewish Christian saints. There is no basis for thinking that there will not be both Jewish and non-Jewish saints going through the 666-imposed Great Tribulation.

More than that, there is absolutely no basis for misbelieving that any Christian saints will be raptured before the Lawless One is revealed. In fact, because both Jewish and Gentile saints are going to go through The Tribulation (according to Revelation chapter 14), it is most likely that The Rapture will occur at the end of the 42-month (NOT "7"-year) Great Tribulation period. Christ appeared once as a babe in Bethlehem, but Christ will not return twice before The Millennium (in a fly-by first pass to secretly snatch away pseudo-christian cowards before persecution begins against them).

No one should (although some very definitely already have) concoct artificial designations of historical-time-period 'dispensationalism" in a kind of jewish/non-jewish racism of non-justifiable discrimination and exclusionary differentiation. There is no distinction when it comes to the destinies of Christian saints - all are one in Christ Jesus and all are equal, in one sense.