Some of the reasons are poor or downright false:
Like this,
1. While posttribulationism appeared as early as 2 Thessalonians 2, many in the early church believed in the imminency of the Lord’s return, which is an essential doctrine of pretribulationism.
Poor reason. If II Thessalonians 2 teaches post-trib, why believe in pre-trib?
If he is saying Paul is responding to post-trib reasoning, that does not fit the wording of the passage.
This is false:
3. Pretribulationism is the only view that allows literal interpretation of all Old and New Testament passages on the Great Tribulation.
False, post-trib allows for a (reasonably) literal interpretation of NT and OT, more literal than pre-trib. Some pretribbers desparate to find some actual evidence for their position have allegoricalized the instruction to John to 'Come up hither.'
This line of argument is false:
8. None of the New Testament passages on the Tribulation mention the church (Matt. 13:30, 39-42, 48-50; 24:15-31; 1 Thess. 1:9-10, 5:4-9; 2 Thess. 2:1-11; Rev. 4-18).
I Thessalonians 1 shows that
the church receives rest from them that trouble her when Jesus returns to execute wrath on them that know not God and to be glorified in the saints. Many pre-tribbers believe Jesus is going to come part-way down, get the saints, there will be three and a half years of relative peace on earth-- not immediate displays of vengence, followed by persecution of God's people and the second coming.
This is a bogus argument.
12. The translation of the church is never mentioned in any passage dealing with the second coming of Christ after the Tribulation.
The Bible never says Jesus is coming back multiple times after the ascension. It refers to the parousia/coming of Christ. There is no reason to think there are more than one of these parousia events. In I Thessalonians 4, the rapture and resurrection occur at the parousia. In I Corinthians 15, the dead are made alive 'at his coming.'
If he is focused on the book of Revelation, there is no reference to the rapture of the church
before the tribulation. Other scripture sets the rapture at the coming of Christ. None sets it seven years before Jesus' coming. The rapture passage in I Thessalonians 4 sets it at the rapture.
In II Thessalonians 2, the passage about the man of sin, that wicked is destroyed at the brightness of the Lord's parousia/coming. The rapture occurs at the parousia/coming of Christ in I Thessalonians 4. Pre-trib doesn't have the man of sin being revealed until after the rapture.
13. The church is not appointed to wrath (Rom. 5:9; 1 Thess. 1:9-10; 5:9). The church therefore cannot enter “the great day of their wrath” (Rev. 6:17).
So what then? Does the church have to be destroyed in heaven during this time before the day of wrath according to pre-trib? Does the church exist during this day of wrath, or not?
The issue is whether the church is appointed to wrath, not whether it exists during God's outpouring of wrath. Wrath is anger. God is not angry with the saints with whom He is well pleased. Read Revelation. is God angry with the tribulational saints, who overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of His testimony? When many of them die, why would He listen to their prayers if He is angry? Doesn't this pre-trib argument insist that God must have wrath toward whatever pre-trib saints are on the earth during this time?
The not appointed unto wrath verse says that ye are not appointed unto wrath but to obtain salvation. The tribulational saints who overcome are not appointed to wrath, weather or not they are on earth while God pours his wrath on the wicked. So there is no argument for pre-trib here.
17. It is characteristic of divine dealing to deliver believers before a divine judgment is inflicted on the world as illustrated in the deliverance of Noah, Lot, Rahab, etc. (2 Peter 2:5-9).
God preserved Noah in the midst of the flood. He was able to pour plagues out on Egypt without getting them on His people. God is able to aim His judgments.
18. At the time of the translation of the church, all believers go to the Father’s house in heaven (John 14:3) and do not immediately return to the earth after meeting Christ in the air as posttribulationists teach.
Cited verse does not prove the point. No surprise.
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