I have to say....post tribbers lack a comprehensive understanding of the whole counsel of God regarding eschatology. And their errors and omissions have been quite thoroughly addressed here and on so many other threads.
The big problem with pretrib is that
the Bible does not actually teach it. You won't find any passage of scripture that says Jesus is coming back twice. You find many references to the 'parousia', the coming of Christ. Pre-tribbers invent a second, second coming of Jesus, a partial return, and then say this verse about the parousia is about the rapture event, and this one is a later second coming. But the Bible doesn't teach that. The passages that lay out a sequence don't have two comings. There is no rapture of the church in Revelation mentioned before the unpleasantness starts.
There is no reference to a rapture before the great tribulation in Matthew 24. Instead, the coming of the Son of Man is set at the end of the tribulation. And there is language that is parallel with rapture passages. For example, there is the coming of the Son of Man and angels gather in the elect in Matthew 24, and II Thessalonians 2 mentions the coming of the Lord and our gathering to him. There is a trumpet in Matthew 24, after the tribulation at the coming of the Son of Man and a trumpet in the passage that actually mentions the rapture (caught up) in I Thessalonians 4.
So we have these passages that all fit together as one event, but pre-tribbers assert.... without evidence... that the coming of the Lord is two events and say this verse goes in the rapture box, and this verse goes in the second coming box.
Not to mention passages like II Thessalonians 1 and Thessalonians 2, which, with a straightforward, plain sense of the text contradicts pretrib.
One thing I'll give pre-tribber is a lot of them have some kind of explanation for just about everything. It may be an explanation that goes against the plain sense of the text, an explanation that leaves non-pretribbers shaking their heads, but you have something to say for just about everything.
The fact is....a rapture of Christians at the point of the SC makes zero sense Scripturally. It fails on many levels. On every level actually.
Post trib rests on a very straightforward interpretation of scriptures, without dividing references to Christ's coming into two events without any justification from scripture whatsoever.
What problem is there for post-trib that isn't also a problem for pre-trib? The 'problems' for pre-trib I am familiar with, are problems for pre-tribbers who treat the pre-trib scenario as if it were scripture. Like 'What about the marriage supper of the Lamb happening up in heaven before the Second Coming when the Bible does not say that the marriage supper of the Lamb takes place in heaven before the Second Coming. Or the idea that the restrainer must be the Holy Spirit, when the passage says no such thing.
Or there are verses taken out of context. Paul says we are not appointed unto wrath, but to obtain salvation from our Lord Jesus Christ. And because in Revelation, bowls of wrath are poured out on unbelievers, that is supposed to prove a pre-trib rapture. But wouldn't imply that the tribulational saints are appointed unto wrath, rather than to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ?
The tribulational saints are portrayed as overcomers, and pre-trib portrays them poorly, as those who missed the rapture.
You post-tribbers have doubts, questions, confusion, Scriptural loose ends everywhere.
Not for us pre-tribbers though. We have a complete package with a bow on it ready for delivery.
Again,pre-trib is not something the Bible teaches. There is no passage of scripture you can point to (without getting crazy allegorical, funny for supposedly literal interpreters) that shows a rapture occurring before the tribulation. It's all based on explanations to try to make this whole scenario fit with passages of scripture. But the scripture doesn't teach the scenario, so where is it's authority?
It's a 'goodness of fit' approach, not something the Bible actually teaches.
