Until this happens first, this change from mortality to immortality, Pretrib implies that during the rapture event the church is raptured to heaven still in the state they were in before the rapture. IOW, Pretrib has the church entering heaven in a flesh and blood state rather than a changed state, meaning bodily immortality. Are Pretribbers going to argue that the last trump(1 Corinthians 15:52) is meaning prior to great trib rather than after great trib, then expect some of the rest of us to take that argument serious?
There is no change from mortality to immortality. That is not found in Scripture anywhere. That is not Paul's message in "this mortal must put on immortality". You as a born again child of God have already passed from death into life. That is mortal putting on immortality. That is death putting on life. That is literally a spiritual phenomenon, and has nothing to do with the physical body at all.
What did Jesus mean in this verse:
"But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which shall not
taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God."
"Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not
taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom."
"But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God
should taste death for every man."
According to these verses, the Cross changed everything and the spiritual aspect of death was removed. But why hide the physical aspect as well? Talk about an agenda. Why has the church kept the fabrication going, that there is no resurrection until the last hour of creation? That is the agenda of post tribulation thought. Because the church taught post millennial everything. Then some pointed out, no Scripture states there is a Second Coming pre-mill. But why stop there? What about pre-satan's 42 months? What about pre-trib? The resurrection of the OT redeemed was pre-Holy Spirit poured out on Pentecost. Why can no one see these other points where there is no longer death, but passing out of death into life? If you are post any of the above, you may even deny that Lazarus was resurrected from the grave, never to see or taste death again. Yet many of you all teach Lazarus physically died again, as if Jesus had no power of life at that point. Why condemn this guy to two physical deaths? Jesus just told you all that no one would taste death again, standing there before the Cross, and then you turn around and condemn Lazarus to another death.
When are you all going to realize that for the redeemed, there is no physical death, but the soul immediately enters a permanent incorruptible physical body? Paul is not ever saying that a body will rise out of the grave ever in any of his writings. That would directly contradict the words of Jesus, that states no one will taste death. And that is because the Cross changed the dynamics of death forevermore for those in Christ.
You want the right order of things? You have to give up this post resurrection ideology that permeates the church. The resurrection in Revelation 20:4 is not about the church nor anyone else except a well defined group. And this group did taste death. They had to chop off their heads just to be redeemed, not because they were were redeemed. They had to stand in judgment in order to pass from death into life. Only those who were beheaded to avoid the mark will taste death, and be resurrected, because the rest of the dead are those with the mark at that point. No one else is dead, because the redeemed have already passed from death into life, even before the 42 months, in which the mark was given.
So, do you change Revelation against the warning not to, and make Revelation fit the Gospel accounts. Or do you leave Revelation alone, and adjust what we know about the Gospel accounts of the Second Coming? Then you all need to figure out why the church thinks a future resurrection is inevitable, when the resurrection of the dead already took place at the Cross. No one has been "the dead" and redeemed since the Cross. You are either one or the other, not both. When Paul refers to the "dead in Christ", that is a rhetorical point about physical death, but not a literal point that they are without physical bodies. Or it has nothing to do with those physically dead at all. The closest thing would be we are in death, because Adam's flesh is death, not life. But no one took death with them to heaven. Death was left to return to dust.
No, God is not going to bring that dust back, since they already have a physical body from God that is already permanent and incorruptible. So rising first is the moment the soul leaves Adam's flesh, and enters God's body. 2 Corinthians 5:1 should clear that up for you all. The only souls that does not apply to are those who purposely chopped off their heads. They have to wait until after Satan is bound in the pit, before receiving the first resurrection. So when does the church leave, and the final harvest begins? Are people chopping off their heads at alters in churches throughout the world before the church is taken away?