Subject: Pretribulation or slightly after ? |
Bible Note: You write: "This rumor that the pre-trib view started in the 19th century is not accurate." That the Church will be raptured before the Tribulation "is only one of the major positions on last things. "The other basic views are all post-tribuational . . . The historic view, or the view held generally by the church since apostolic times, is that the Tribulation is future and that Christ will return to earth after the Tribulation and will meet his saints on the way in the rapture. (...) "From the above views, we can see that the majority of the opinions are post-tribulational. The only view that is pre-tribulational is the dispensational viewpoint, which became popular during the 1800's through the teaching of a man named Darby in the British Isles. Darby's teachings were popularized in America..." (www.equip.org/free/DS320.htm). |