Pretribulationists have objected to a posttribulational or a pretribulational rapture in Matt 24 based on the fact that Israel, not the church, is addressed in the Discourse. But both posttribulationists and pretribulationists need to recognize that to find the rapture of church saints in Matt 24:36–44 does not require that the church will go through the tribulation or that the rest of the Discourse (e.g., Matt 24:4–28) describes the experience