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What Paul is really saying is that in one moment of time (the moment after the dead in Christ rise) two different people groups get two different results:How can it be before?
1 Thessalonians 5:2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
The brethren adressed here are obviously meaning the saved. If Paul thought that they would not even be present when the DOTL initially begins, why then is Paul saying what he says in verse 4? You don't find it silly to be told about that day not overtaking you as a thief, that being because you won't even be here to see that day? The way that day can or cannot overtake one as a thief though, it requires the ones not overtaken as a thief, to still be present when that day initially begins. Otherwise Paul is making a ridiculous point in verse 4.
Those in Christ get raptured and get to "live together with Him."
Those in darkness get God's wrath, Paul's "sudden destruction" and the start of the Day of the Lord.
In short Paul is showing us that the rapture will be the trigger for the Day of the Lord and God's wrath. Just for comaprison, the 70th week will start with the next or 7th seal. So Paul's rapture certainly comes before the 70th week or as many people say, the trib.
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