Pre Trib Rapture Intro

We are approaching this study as the 1st Century Jews should have approached the study of the first coming of Christ. There were 2 sets of prophecies which did not seem to be compatible but even contradictory (Jn.12:34, Mt.11:3, Ac.1:6) concerning Christ suffering and dying for sins but also destroying the wicked out of the land and reigning as King over all the earth.
Both of these series of prophecies from the Old Testament were true but needed to be rightly divided. This is how we examine the returning of the Lord Jesus to earth. We do not use the verses we like to cancel the ones that don’t fit. We put them together and let God be true.
In like manner the coming of Christ in the air to receive his mystery bride to the Father's house to the prepared place in heaven is not the same as his coming with the bride to the earth to reign.