what does this have to do with the rapture?
Daniel 9:27 KJV
And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: 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.
This is when the Antichrist begins his reign. “In the midst of the week”
2 Thessalonians 2:4,7 KJV
Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. [7] For the mystery of iniquity doth already work:
only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
(Ephesians 5:32 KJV
This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.)
When the mystery, the body of Christ the Church, is finished, he will, “
be taken out of the way.”
The Antichrist cannot reign while Gods OBEDIENT children are on earth.
God is so gracious. His children who are DISOBEDIENT get another chance. They are left behind, to be martyred or however God allows them to be,
overcome, because they now repent of their disobedience, but they missed out on the rapture. God takes them a different way.
Revelation 12:17 KJV
And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the
remnant of her seed, which
keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Revelation 13:7 KJV
And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to
overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.