christ notes

Then I saw thrones, and sitting on them were those to whom authority to act as judges and to pass sentence was entrusted. Also I saw the souls of those who had been slain with axes [beheaded] for their witnessing to Jesus and [for preaching and testifying] for the Word of God, and who had refused to pay homage to the beast or his statue and had not accepted his mark or permitted it to be stamped on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived again and ruled with Christ (the Messiah) a thousand years.(A) The remainder of the dead were not restored to life again until the thousand years were completed. This is the first resurrection. Revelation 20:4-5

John was shown by Jesus the saved children of God here, those who came before the Great Tribulation and those who came out of the Great Tribulation, and the power that will be given unto us. And he was also shown that the unsaved where clearly not part of this first resurrection.

Remember Jesus clearly shows John that this is the first resurrection and it clearly takes place after satan is bound in thrown into the pit for a thousand years of captivity at the end of the great Tribulation. Now lets read 1 Corinthians 15:51-52, Take notice! I tell you a mystery (a secret truth, an event decreed by the hidden purpose or counsel of God). We shall not all fall asleep [in death], but we shall all be changed (transformed). In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the [sound of the] last trumpet call. For a trumpet will sound, and the dead [in Christ] will be raised imperishable (free and immune from decay), and we shall be changed (transformed).

Those of us who are saved and alive will in no way precede those of us who are saved and have died in Christ. The dead in Christ clearly rise first, then those of us who are alive are transformed. And the first resurrection is not until after the Great Tribulation has ended. Scriptural there is no proof of a pre-tribulation rapture of the saints, but there is clearly a contradiction to this belief.