BIB 501-2 wk 9 DQ#3 Will the church go through the "Great Tribulation"? Justify your view.

First a few definitions as I understand them. There is the lower case church, a building and the upper case Church, the body of believers. I’ve long understood that the Tribulation was seven years in length and started with a seven year covenant between the anti-Christ and Israel guaranteeing peace. Midway into the Tribulation the abomination of desolation will take place initiating the Great Tribulation, also known as “The time of Jacobs Trouble.”
So it is very possible that people who did attend church will go through the "Great Tribulation," however, the Church will not. By the start of Chapter Five in the Book of Revelation the Church, often called “The Body of Christ,” is gone! Call it the Rapture, the Harpazo or the Blessed Hope, we are out of here!
Paul is very clear in his writing:
1 Thessalonians 4:16-18, “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 18 wherefore comfort one another with these words.”
1 Corinthians 15:51-53, “Behold, I shew you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.”
The Marriage Supper of the Lamb gives us the assurance that Jesus has been preparing a place for us for nearly two thousand years. John 14:1-3, “Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.”
Some many promises of Jesus coming for His Church, so little time to carry out the Great Commission and bring more into the kingdom!