[quote name='MSI Magus']My question has been...what happened to the anti Christ and the big battle that is supposed to take place on Earth? Didnt the bible talk about all that too? The rapture seems in direct contradiction with that.[/QUOTE]
First: no, the Bible... look, most of this rapture shit is heretical as

, and that includes the "Antichrist" stuff. Next time someone tells you that all that "the Antichrist will rebuild Solomon's Temple and whatever and whatever" stuff is based on "a literal interpretation of scripture", tell him to

off. The common end-times story (there are myriad variations) - Left Behind and all that shit - is an out-of-order mish-mash of the ball-tripping imagery of Revelation with stuff from Daniel which has nothing to do with it at all but hey, there's a bunch of ominous shit in there, so why not?
Now, in this particular case, I believe the tribulation occurs in a rather short period of time after the rapture - that is, all the fancy plagues and disasters and wars and shit happen
after today's rapture. God takes away all the worthy
before things go sour down here, see, though you can still get into heaven if you convert post-rapture.