Ephraim

~ Again, when we see the saints in glory flying off in light in the clouds of the air to meet Christ, the king of glory, but see ourselves in the great tribulation, who shall be able to bear that shame and terrible reproach? ~ On the Fathers Who Have Completed Their Course

~ "Watch always, praying continually, that you may be worthy to escape the tribulation ... if anyone has tears and compunction, let him pray the Lord that he might be delivered from the tribulation which is about to come upon the earth, that he might not see it all, nor the beast himself, nor even hear of its terrors." ~ Sermon on the Advent, the End, and the Coming of the Antichrist

~ "Let us take up … the full armor … that we may be able to fight the good fight … that we might be delivered from the wrath coming upon the sons of disobedience." ~ On Patience and the Consummation of this Age, and on the Second Coming

~ Count us worthy, Lord, of the rapture of the righteous, when they meet you the Master in the clouds, that we might not be tried by the bitter and inexorable judgment." ~ Sermon on the Resurrection of the Dead

~ "Take us out from the coming fear, and count us worthy of that rapture (snatching away) when the righteous are raptured (snatched) in the clouds to the air to meet the King of glory." ~ The Destruction of Pride

~ "Blessed are those who cry day and night that they should be delivered from the coming wrath." ~ How the Soul Ought to Pray God with Tears and On the Blessed and the Cursed

~ Pseudo-Ephraim the Syrian, AD373 - ". . . because all saints and the elect of the LORD are gathered together before the Tribulation which is about to come and be taken to the LORD . . ." ~ On The Last Times 2