Subject: Is pre-tribulation biblical? |
Bible Note: Dear Brother Tim, Justme's question was, "[Can] most Bible literate Christians could just read the Scripture and come to a pretrib and 7 year trib position?" If the teaching was extant at some earlier time then that might make my answer to him incorrect. The word in Justme's question that creates the problem is "most." At least 51 percent of Bible literate Christians would need to arrive at both (rapture and seven year tribulation) positions. The earliest reference I could find to "rapture" was 1830. Your information would put the historic earliest reference to between the fourth and seventh centuries. Thank you, Tim for this interesting fact. Justme, I stand corrected. I'd have to answer your question with a simple, "I do not know. At least some Bible literate Christians do not agree. I do not know if they are in the majority or not." In Him, Doc |