Question:

65.2—Where in Revelation (if ever) does it tell when the rapture takes place? Also, where are some other Scriptures that tell us the rapture will happen before the tribulation?

65.2—Concerning when the rapture will take place, Revelation 3:10 adds to the thoughts already mentioned.  I believe this verse talks about the Tribulation since it says that this hour of temptation will come on all the world.  There are terrible problems in many areas of the world, but the Tribulation will affect the entire world.  The Church is being addressed in Revelation 3 and so I take it as a promise that the Church will be spared going through the Tribulation.  This would necessitate being taken out of the world since the Tribulation will come on all the world, which would indicate the rapture of believers as described in 1 Thessalonians 4:16,17.  What love we, the Bride of Christ (the Church), are shown by our Lord in sparing us the terrible suffering of the Tribulation! 

I believe that 2 Thessalonians 2:3-12 also show that the rapture will occur before the Tribulation.  The Antichrist is described in verses 3, 4, 8, 9, and 10.  These verses correspond to the revelation of the Antichrist in Revelation 13:11-17.  2 Thessalonians 2:7, 8 shows that the Antichrist will not be revealed until the One is taken away who hinders iniquity.  Remembering from Romans 3:12 that “there is none that doeth good,” then the One who hinders iniquity in this world must be the Holy Spirit who indwells believers (Ephesians 1:13).  No human being is holy in himself and therefore would not be able to stop iniquity, but the Holy Spirit who indwells every believer is holy and is capable of hindering iniquity.  The Holy Spirit will be taken out of the earth at the rapture when those He indwells are taken to heaven.  It is only then that the Wicked, Lawless, Antichrist will be revealed to deceive those who had already rejected the truth (2 Thessalonians 2:10-12).