Removing the Church from the Earth is the Rapture.
Yes it is the 1st rapture. After the fullness of the Gentiles comes in, part of Israel will have its eyes opened and God will turn His attention to the Jews.
Romans 11
25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits;
that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
The 70th week of Daniel is about the people of Daniel.
Daniel 9
24
Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
I cannot explain why so many think that the great tribulation is about the Church. The Church will be gone before the great tribulation. The great tribulation is when the Jews turn back to God. Hence, the 144,000 first fruits of the second harvest.
That also would be a Rapture…
Where is that Scripture?
This is the second rapture. It occurs at the 6th seal.
Matthew 24
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
31
And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
This is the rapture of the 12 tribes across the earth. There are 144,000 first fruits of this rapture. If the first fruits are of the 12 tribes, the harvest is of the 12 tribes. When the dragon can't get to the woman, as she is in her place of protection, he goes after her seed which are the Jews that are all over the earth. Many Jews will have their blindness removed and realize that Jesus is the Messiah.
Revelation 12
17
And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Here is another view of the rapture that occurs at the 6th seal.
Revelation 14
14 And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.
15 And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.
16 And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.
Do you think a Harvest and Rapture are the same thing?
Yes of course a harvest is a rapture.
There are two raptures as the fig tree has two harvests.
The Feasts of God show a grain harvest.........barley and wheat and a fruit harvest.
Days of Noah.........Days of Lot.
The Lord Himself comes..................He sends His angels.
He comes at the trump of God...............He comes at the last trump which is blown on the Feast of Trumpets.
The dead are raised first................The dead and alive are changed in the twinkling of an eye.
Moses instructed to make two silver trumpets to gather the people.
The list goes on and on. There are two raptures.