No — the Church will not go through the Tribulation; it will be taken out first.
Les Feldick teaches that when the Church age ends, the Body of Christ is removed before God's prophetic clock resumes with Israel. Because grace and law cannot mix, and because the Tribulation is God's program for Israel under the Law, the Church must be gone before the wrath of the Lamb is poured out. Christ promises to keep His true believers 'from the hour' rather than through it.
Revelation 3:10 — Christ promises to keep faithful believers 'from the hour of temptation' that will come on the whole world — Les uses this as direct proof that the Church is kept out of the Tribulation.
Revelation 6:17 — This verse announces 'the great day of his wrath' — the period that begins after the Church has been called out, in Les's teaching.
The Bible points to a coming hour of world-wide testing. In Revelation 3:10, the Lord Jesus says to the Philadelphian church: 'Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.' Revelation 6:17 asks of that day: 'For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?' Isaiah 63:1-2 also pictures judgment and blood-stained garments, asking: 'Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah?' and 'Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?' These passages show the Tribulation as a time of wrath and testing upon the whole world.
Les Feldick is emphatic: the Church, the Body of Christ, will not go into the Tribulation. 'Oh, it's coming back,' he says of the Tribulation, 'but the church is going to have to go first' (Clip 3). He compares the Church to Enoch: 'I maintain we will not, no more than Enoch went into the flood' (Clip 4). His strongest argument is the law/grace issue: during the Tribulation Israel goes back under the Law with the temple, but 'grace and law cannot mix.' As Les puts it, if he has any argument that believers will not go into the Tribulation, that is the purpose right there (Clip 2). The Church age is a parenthetical period; when it ends, God picks up where He left off with Israel (Clip 2). Les also stresses that church doctrine and grace doctrine are not found in the four Gospels, because God was still dealing with Israel under the Law (Clip 1). The Tribulation is primarily God's dealing with Israel, where the Church would be 'a fish out of water' (Clip 7). The Church age is never mentioned in that prophetic period (Clip 6). Finally, the age of grace ends 'with the outcalling of the Church back there before the tribulation began,' and then the wrath of the Lamb is poured out (Clip 5).
Les says the Church age has ended before the Tribulation begins. God's time clock, which stopped when He turned to the Gentiles with the gospel of grace, resumes with Israel. In the Tribulation Israel goes back under the Law with her temple, but grace and law cannot mix. Therefore the Church has to be taken out of the way so God can pick up where He left off with the nation of Israel.
In the letter to the Philadelphians, Les points to the Lord Jesus's own promise: 'Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of testing, temptation in the King James, that shall come upon all the world.' Les reads 'keep thee from the hour' as keeping the Church out of the hour itself, not merely through it. He also compares the Church's removal to Enoch, who did not go into the Flood.
When grace has ended with the outcalling of the Church, the wrath of the Lamb is poured out. Les describes the terrible scene in Revelation — a river of blood running 180 miles, hundred-pound hailstones, and millions of deaths — and ties it to Isaiah's Old Testament picture of the One coming from Edom with dyed garments. He also connects the resumed Jewish program to Daniel 9 and the Antichrist's seven-year treaty with Israel.
Isaiah's Prophecy of Judgment
Les shows that the Tribulation's bloodshed was predicted in the Old Testament, reinforcing that this wrath belongs to the period after the Church is gone.
Law vs. Grace Distinction
Les explains that church doctrine and grace doctrine are not found in the four Gospels because God was still dealing with Israel under the Law; this supports the reason the Church must be removed when Israel returns to Law.
God Resumes His Program with Israel
Les teaches that when the Church age ends, God picks up where He left off with Israel; because grace and law cannot mix and Israel goes back under the Law, the Church cannot enter the Tribulation.
The Church Must Go First
Les plainly says the Tribulation is coming back, but the Church has to go first; we are now under grace, not law.
Kept from the Hour — Enoch Analogy
Les compares the Church to Enoch, who did not go into the Flood, and points to Revelation 3:10 where Christ promises to keep believers 'from the hour of temptation' that comes on the whole world.
Grace Ends with the Outcalling
Les teaches that the age of grace ends with the outcalling of the Church before the Tribulation begins; after that, the wrath of the Lamb is poured out.
Church Age Absent from Tribulation Prophecy
Les notes that in all the prophetic time of God's dealing with Israel, the Church age is never mentioned — showing the Church is not part of that program.
Fish Out of Water
Les says the Church would be a fish out of water in the Tribulation because it is not part of the Jewish program or the Law; the Church must be removed so God can deal with Israel and introduce the Antichrist's seven-year covenant.
Revelation 3:10: Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
The key verse Les uses to show that faithful believers are kept from the hour of testing, not taken through it.
Revelation 6:17: For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
This verse describes the day of wrath that Les connects to the post-removal period after the Church age has ended.
Isaiah 63:1: Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
Les uses Isaiah's question to show the Old Testament predicted the blood-stained judgment of the Tribulation.
Isaiah 63:2: Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?
The question Les quotes when describing the blood-stained garments of the coming Judge.
No. Les Feldick teaches that the Church, the Body of Christ, is taken out before the Tribulation begins. He argues that grace and law cannot mix, and the Tribulation is God's resumed program with Israel under the Law.
Les takes 'from the hour' literally — not 'through it.' Just as Enoch was taken before the Flood, the true believers represented by Philadelphia are kept from the time of testing that comes on the whole world.
Because the Tribulation is primarily God's dealing with Israel. Les says the Church age is totally silent in that prophetic period; the Church would be a fish out of water.
Watch the Teaching: Why the Church Will Not Go Through the Tribulation