Raptured Or Not?

Dear children of God! Do not be misled!
By false-salve spreaders, saying, He will come
To take us from earth before times of dread;
They're wishful thinkers, hoping to win some
The easy way, by sacrificing less!
The Wrath of God, on the saved and the lost,
Must come to all, that He know which to bless,
And which must pay damnation's total cost!
The Rapture soothes, but is a fairy tale,
Spun by the builders of castles of sand!
If true, it would Christ's Return date unveil,
And whence martyrs Antichrist to demand?

The apostle John outlived his companions. He was martyred in 103 A.D. In his final years he wrote the Apocalypse, the Book of Revelation in the Bible. In a dream he was carried to heaven by Jesus Christ and was revealed many things that would happen in the end-times. The Wrath of God is a series of awful catastrophes that God is going to cause to happen to earth and its people, the unsaved as well as the saved. Before it begins, He is going to place a seal or mark on a number of true believers which will protect them from being harmed in the disasters He brings. These are intended to cause unsealed lukewarm Christians to hurriedly amend their ways and be saved, or to confirm their lostness. They are also intended to cause repentance among the wicked or to punish them and guarantee their condemnations. God's Wrath, combined with the depradations originated by the Antichrist and the False Prophet who rise to rule the world and make war on Christians, is called the Great Tribulation, and is predicted to last for 7 years.

Many preachers have promoted an interpretation of the Bible that calls for Jesus Christ to make an intermediate return to earth before His official Second Coming, bringing with Him from heaven the souls of dead Christians. This will happen, they say, before the beginning of the Tribulation. Jesus will call for the resurrection of the bodies of Christians; they will come forth in new, imperishable bodies and rise to be rejoined with their original souls; while Christians who are living at that time will change in the twinkling of an eye and rise to join the happy throng for its return to heaven. Thus, no true Christian would be left on earth to go into the Tribulation. Jesus will return with the saints and angels in 7 years to defeat the Antichrist at the battle of Armageddon.

It is a beautiful fairy tale. Revelation 20:5 says that the FIRST RESURRECTION will occur when Jesus makes His Second Coming. If the Rapture did take place 7 years earlier, complete with the resurrection of all dead Christians, how could there be TWO first resurrections?