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You are reading the church INTO Matthew 24. There is NO proof in the verse that the "beginning of sorrows" is now.
True, we're seeing "tribulations" now, but to say that Matthew 24 is talking about the Church is not rightly dividing the word of truth. Matthew 24 is the answer to the question in verse 3: Second Coming and End of the World.
Again, making the "coming" in Matthew 24:3 to be the Rapture of the Church is not rightly dividing the Word of Truth. Matthew 24 has to do with Israel before the Second Coming, not the Church before the Rapture (2 Tim. 3:1ff).
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When did I say the church was in Matt. 24?
Matt. 24 is exclusively to the Jews.
That, however, doesn't mean that NO ONE ELSE will be around during some of the things being described in it.
Was the church around when the temple was destroyed in 70 AD?
And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.
And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
Matt 24:1,2
Was the church around when the Jews went back into the land in 1948?
Just because the church is not being addressed in Matt. 24 doesn't mean it can't be present for some of the events in it.