I grew up being taught that before the Great Tribulation, that all those alive, and dead, in Christ would be unexpectedly caught away up to Heaven in some beam-me-up-Jesus great escape from what was about to befall the earth. Once in Heaven, we'd celebrate and have a party for the next seven years, while all Hell broke loose down below. Then in the course of a discussion about end-time events, when I stated somewhat smugly that I was going up in the Rapture before the Tribulation, my friend suggested I read my Bible again. 

So I did. And because I approached it by putting away all I'd been taught unless it was in the Bible, I found out that I'd been lied to all my life. Not out of maliciousness, but because my teachers and pastors had also been lied to.

Follow my journey as I do a fairly in-depth word search on "The Day of the Lord", "Who Get Taken and Who Left" and other foundational tenets of the whole pre-trib rapture theory...it's just a theory. Remember Paul warns Believers "Not to be Deceived".

Contains Scripture references from the KJV Bible.