What happens after the Church departs?
After the Church departs in the Rapture, the man of sin appears, and the Tribulation begins. This Tribulation is God dealing with Israel, not the Church. The Church will not fit in that scenario because it is strictly a Pauline revelation, and Paul alone was given the secrets concerning the Church.
Les explains that the Rapture, or the outcalling of the Body of Christ, is strictly a Pauline revelation, and no other Scripture writer even mentions such a thing. All the rest of Scripture speaks about the Second Coming, and it is coming, but before that happens the Church is out of here because it won’t fit in the Tribulation scenario. The Tribulation comes out of all the prophetic statements of the Old Testament and is God dealing with Israel. Only in II Thessalonians chapter 2 does Paul mention it, making it plain that after we have departed, then shall appear that man of sin, and the Tribulation, and all the rest of it. So after the Church departs, the man of sin is revealed and the Tribulation begins, with God dealing with Israel rather than the Church.