This is not an attack on those who believe or teach the pre-trib rapture doctrine, but it is a cry to reconsider what Jesus said for our own sakes so that we might have vision and understanding in order to endure to the harvest that He said we must endure to. Let's consider the illogic of the potentially dangerous pre-trib doctrine from a completely different viewpoint. Scripture clearly says that God has tremendous purposes for His church on earth at the end of the age. This demonstration of His glory through His church supercedes all other considerations, and is stated in these several verses as the reason He created all things and as His eternal purpose in Christ Jesus. Much of this demonstration, according to the book of Revelation, will take place during the last three and one-half years of the age, where the saints overcome satan by the Blood of the Lamb, the word of their testimony, and by loving not their lives unto death.
Victory is gained by the wisdom of the cross demonstrated by an enduring, overcoming church.
Listen to Jesus, the true authority. He has told us everything we need to know about these things.