What Is The Rapture: When will it occur?

Is the Rapture a Pre-Tribulation event, Mid-Tribulation or Post-Tribulation event?

There are few prophesies in the Bible that have sparked as much debate as the timing of the rapture. It is amazing that there are so many views on this matter when presumably we all read from the same book. There are three fundamental beliefs on this matter, and they are.

1. The Pre-tribulation Rapture.

The understanding here is that God's elect will be taken up into Heaven before the last seven years of the "ch...