Luke 17:22- Jesus speaks of men looking for signs of his return. Verse 26 speaks of how His Kingdom will come. Jesus tells how a few chosen ones were taken out of harms way because of their righteousness.
Luke 17:26--
Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in maggiage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all. This fits right in with the pre-trib rapture or pre-wrath rapture or mid-trib rapture. Call it what you will. The next story Jesus relates the return of his kingdom to is in the 28th verse.
Luke 17:28--
It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. Both of these stories show that God had compassion on a few choses ones and saved them from wrath by bringing them OUT OF impending destruction. So the question is
when will we be taken in relation to this tribulation hour/period.
1 Thessalonians 4:16--For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds so we will be with the Lord forever.
Call it rapture, taking up, come up hither, beem me up scotty, whatever......
1 Thessalonians 5:9-For God did not appoint us (christians) to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.
There are other verses that point to this subject but Jesus tells it well relating it to these two stories. Sorry to get off the subject of Rev 4