: Post-Tribulation Rapture

Post-Tribulation Rapture

Specific Distinctives:
Christians will endure entire Tribulation of which many will be martyred
Believers are raptured at Christ's visible appearing and then return with Him to earth for 1000 years
This view is very similar to Historical Pre-Millennialism

Background:
Though not Dispensational, Justin Martyr (110-165), Ireneaus (120-202), Tertullian (145-220), Hippolytus (160-240), Cyprian (200-260) taught that the Antichrist would persecute the Church

Works:
Ralph W. Ullmann, That Blessed Hope, A Post Tribulation Event (1937)
George L. Rose, Tribulation Till Transition (1943)
Robert Gundry, The Church and the Tribulation (1973), First the Antichrist (1997)
Roy W. Anderberg, Post Tribulation Rapture: A Biblical Study of the Return of Christ (2008) Theological Persuation:
Calvinists and Arminians Churches:
Baptist, Independent, Pentecostal, Messianic

Past Notables:
Walter Martin (the original ‗Bible Answer Man')
George Muller, Benjamin Wills Newton (clashed with Darby over eschatology)
Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892) is also cited as a proponent of Post-Trib thought Current Notables:
Greg Koukl, Monte Judah, Ken Kline, Tim Warner, Irwin Baxter

Web Sites:
Gavin Finley (http://endtimepilgrim.org/posttribrap.htm)
William Arnold III (www.apostolic.net/biblicalstudies/post/index.htm)
Joel C. Graves (http://www.posttribulationrapture.com)
R. Totten (http://worldview_3.tripod.com/tribchurch.html)
Tim Warner (www.answersinrevelation.org)

Quotes:
"Every day we get a little closer to the "Blessed Hope", Jesus Christ returning bodily to take the reins to the kingdoms of this Earth, but we also get even closer to the Great Tribulation. This will be a period so hideous that if Christ were not to return, no flesh would be saved, but for the elects' sake, He will return to take away His Church, all believers not martyred. This will happen "at the last trump" when the living and "the dead in Christ" will be resurrected, "in the twinkle of an eye." This has been labeled the Rapture of the Church and it has also been called the time of preparation for the "marriage supper" of the Lamb. (Robert J. Logston "The End-Times Bloodbath')