This is it: Will the rapture pre-empt the angels' separating the tares first from among the wheat 🌾 then gathering them to the eagles' colony? Hasn't the church "fallen away" since Paul's time?

Do you have a scripture for the 7-year pre-trib rapture and Jesus' return thereafter to allow the angels to then separate the tares from His kingdom? If the church goes to heaven years PRIOR to the angels' purging, does this mean the wheat-&-tares are raptured into heaven together for 7 years? It appears that 2Thess 2:3 "man of sin...son of perdition" is a clue to find out when the predicted fall away would be. Some time after the faithful watchmen - the apostles - died. After the unified, singular Christian church. Verse 4 characterizes this person. If that time hasn't come yet, what caused the Dark Ages? What conditions demanded the Protestant Reformation? How did the miracle power stop? Why are there so many denominations, divisions, and sects in Christendom with varying beliefs? Can the church be raptured without "the unity of the faith"? Which group will be raptured?

Thank you for your question. The rapture will occur at some time before the 7 year Tribulation period begins. This is called a pre-tribulation rapture of the church. The angels separating the wheat from the tares will occur after the return of Jesus Christ to the earth. Jesus will return at the end of the 7 year tribulation. So yes, the rapture will occur at least 7 years before the separating of the wheat from the tares. When Paul talks about the falling away of the church, he calls it THE falling away. Throughout church history there has always been people that have fallen away from Christ. Paul is referring to a specific time when there will be a falling away like no other time. A great falling away, or departure from the faith. The falling away Paul referred to has not happened yet in church history, however we may be seeing the beginning of the falling away in our current time.