THE TRIBULATION IS FOR ISRAEL, NOT THE CHURCH!

 1.  DANIEL 9:24-27 - NOTICE IT ADDRESSES DANIEL'S PEOPLE:

      "Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people (Israel) and upon thy holy city (Jerusalem), to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy (Israel's Messiah).  Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.  And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off (Crucified), but not for Himself:  and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary (Rome fulfilled this in A.D. 70); and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.  And he (antichrist; the beast of Revelation 13:1-10) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week (the seven-year tribulation; Danie's Seventieth Week; the Time of Jacob's Trouble): and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate."

2.  JEREMIAH 30:7 - THE TIME OF JACOB'S TROUBLE:

       "Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's (Israel's) trouble; but he shall be saved out of it."

3.  REVELATION CH. 2 - 3:  THE CHURCH IS MENTIONED IN THESE TWO CHAPTERS BUT NOT MENTIONED IN THE CHAPTERS DESCRIBING ISRAEL'S TRIBULATION PERIOD (CHAPTERS 6 - 19)!

4.  THE REMOVAL OF THE CHURCH, VIA THE RAPTURE, WHICH OCCURS PRIOR TO THE TRIBULATION, IS REVEALED IN JOHN 14:1-3; 1 CORINTHIANS 15:50-54; 1 THESSALONIANS 4:13-18; AND REVELATION 4:1.