Luke 17 is certainly something to consider but what of verse Luke 17:31 ?
That doesn't fit with a rapture as there won't be any warning nor will there be any point in trying to get or do anything as those raptured won't be taking anything with them (well, except maybe for your mobile phone, its pretty much indispensable these days, no matter where you are!).
Also, if a rapture happened and then the 3.5 year wrath period some years or decades later, the world would have settled back into a normal rhythm of life, except that the time period may well have given time for the antichrist to come on the scene and establish themselves, debased behavior would likely be even more prevalent without the 'salt' of Christianity & certainly the rapture would give excuse for many different sects and cults (ie false Christs) to appear and explain it.
The antichrist + beast combo is a very religious figure, an event like the rapture would certainly make the world focus & widely accept religious ideas & explanations.
As to the 'same day', could be literal or could be figurative. 'The 'same day' being literal would torpedo the view I proposed, however if 'the same day' is figurative in any way & given verse 31 it may be, then the view proposed may well be viable.
see, you need to divorce yourself from the "pre tribulation poof" hollywoodized illustration of the rapture.
Let's go to the most famous rapture passage
1 Thessalonians 4
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
First thing's first, the rapture happens with the second coming. Too many pretribbers try to separate the two, without understanding that's unbiblical. Paul connected them, and that's not the only time. Let's keep going see the revelation of God through the writings of the Apostle Paul
2 Thessalonians 2
1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
Paul connects the 2nd coming with the rapture, our gathering to Him.
1 Corinthians 15
22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.
Titus 2
13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
Contrary to popular pretrib teaching.. Paul's not talking about a pretrib rapture as the blessed hope, He's talking about Jesus coming back. It says explicitly in the text.
So Paul did not teach a "secret pretrib rapture" where we just go poof suddenly. He taught that it was with the second coming of Christ, and that it would be a noisy, overt, impossible to hide or falsify event. No left behind confusion or spinning of worldly explanations to sudden disappearances. The people KNOW what has happened.
Jesus teaches an overt, unmistakable, noisy rapture as well.
Matthew 24
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
So after you've seen the abomination of desolation, and during the great tribulation, when the Antichrist makes war on the saints, what keeps you going is knowing that someday soon, the sun and moon will darken (hence look up, lift up your head, for your redemption draws near). That's your warning.. the sun and moon going dark suddenly. When that happens, that's when you basically drop everything don't retreat and go into your house (Remember Lot's wife). What unbelievers do when this happen is hide in caves and bunkers. Don't be among them.
See Revelation 6
12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
For the unbelievers, they know the wrath of God is coming, the event does not need to be explained away or hidden, they know what's happening. They know that this is the wrath of God, and they deserve it, they do not accept that Jesus will redeem you, if you place your faith in Him that He took your deserved punishment in your place on the cross.
But for we who believe? We know the day of the Lord is our redemption, we do not hide from it, we look up, and lift up our heads. When the cosmological signs happen, we run out to meet Him, while those in unbelief hide.
Further proof of the unbelievers knowing what it is, and not needing to have it "explained away" the way pretribbers think it has to happen requires dividing Revelation in half and understanding that Revelation 14:14-20 is the same as the 6th seal. But just before that.. check this out
Revelation 14
6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
8 And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.
This is after the mark of the beast is introduced, but during its deployment/distribution, everyone is given the gospel, everyone is told God is going to judge them, and everyone is warned about the Mark of the Beast. Nobody has any excuse.
They are given the Gospel, as a last chance, reaching uncontacted people, or people who may have heard it in a misunderstood or flawed way, etc.
Then this happens
14 And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.
15 And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.
16 And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.
17 And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.
See, Jesus on the clouds, as in Matthew 24. Note that the first harvest of the earth is performed by Jesus, and they are not put through the wrath of God. Why? Because they are the people who belong to Jesus, and He has gathered them to Himself, the rapture, if you will.
The SECOND harvest is done by an angel, and it is the "clusters of the vine of the earth".. that is, they are earthly people not belonging to Jesus. THEY get put through God's wrath.