Those who around after the rapture on the earth are lost people. How sad.

After the rapture takes place the next thing on the prophetic calendar of the Living God will be the tribulation, God's judgment on the lost, who were left behind. They are the ones decieved by the anti-Christ. They will be the ones who will worship the beast, and the false prophet. Some of them will die when an earthquake takes place as part of the tribulation. Others will die when fire and brimestone from heaven hits them. Still the people will continue to worship the false leaders instead of God.
They will probably still believe in such myths as purgatory even then, among other lies.

Purgatory:Mythical Place, Not Reality!

Purgatory is one of many false teachings still around today. The Catholic church claims it is a holding place for people who die without Christ. This absolutely not true. Purgatory in reality, is nothing more than a myth that was made up the Catholic church along time ago. Purgatory is never mentioned in the Old Testament or New Testament. There are websites out there by the faulty Catholic church claiming it is real. Purgatory is a lie. There is no such thing, and never will be. I think they have hell-the real place- confused with the fictional-purgatory. The only holding place for those who die without Christ prior to the rapture,is Hell, Not Purgatory, but Hell.

Tribulation: Not a pretty picture

The tribulation is not a pretty picture. Since, the tribulation takes place after the rapture, it takes place after the church-true born again believers have been taken away by vanishing, disappearing, being caught up into heaven. The tribulation is a event that takes place on the earth. It is one of God's judgments on the lost who rejected him no matter how many times they heard about Jesus being the only way to heaven and thought they could get saved later. Only later came and went and they still kept making excuses for rejecting the one who saves sinners. So they find themselves doomed. Tribulation when the earth and all its elements are destroyed by God. Tribulation only something for the lost left behind after the rapture.
The tribulation can and will take place after the rapture like God planned for it too. No one can stop the rapture from taking place ,nor can they stop the tribulation from taking place.