Will the Church be taken out before the Second Coming and the Tribulation?
Yes. The Church, the Body of Christ, will be taken out in the Rapture before the Second Coming and the Tribulation. The Rapture is a Pauline revelation; the Tribulation is God dealing with Israel, and the Church will not fit that scenario. Therefore, the Church is removed first.
Les teaches that while the rest of Scripture speaks about the Second Coming, believers are concerned with the out-calling of the Body of Christ, the Rapture, which is strictly a Pauline revelation. He explains that before the Second Coming happens, the Church is "out of here," because it will not fit in the Tribulation scenario, like a square peg in a round hole. The Tribulation, he says, is God dealing with Israel and comes out of Old Testament prophecy. Paul mentions it in II Thessalonians chapter 2, making plain that after we have departed, the man of sin and the Tribulation appear.