The Essential Arguments of the Pre-Tribulation Rapture
Essay title: The Essential Arguments of the Pre-Tribulation Rapture
The Essential Arguments of the Pre-Tribulation Rapture
Following are 25 salient apologetics for the Pre-Tribulation Rapture position. While only a few of these are powerful enough to sway the argument in and of themselves, these arguments taken in their entirety present an overwhelming body of reason that is not easily (and certainly not logically) contraverted. Although there still remain a few problem passages which are not interpreted easily, it must be remembered that proper hermeneutics neither builds a doctrine on isolated scriptures, nor discards truth taught clearly based on these same isolated scriptures.
The literal method of biblical interpretation
All other methods must spiritualize either the entire tribulation period into historical events, or must at the very least spiritualize the specific prophecies of the first 3 Đ… years of the tribulation to make room for the rapture at some period during the tribulation.
The nature of the seventieth week
Wrath
Revelation 6:16-17, 11; 18, 14:19, 15:1,7, 16:1,19
1 Thessalonians 1:9-10, 5:9, Zephaniah 1:15, 18
Judgement
Revelation 14:7, 15:4, 16:5-7, 19:2
Indignation
Isaiah 26:20-21, 34:1-3
Punishment
Isaiah 24:20-21
Hour of Trial
Revelation 3:10
Hour of Trouble
Jeremiah 30:7
Destruction
Joel 1:15
Darkness
Joel 2:2, Zephaniah 1:14-18, Amos 5:18
All of the above scriptures speak to the tribulation in it’s entirety, not just the “great tribulation”, or the last 3 Ѕ years.
The scope of the seventieth week
The Time of Jacob’s Trouble
Jeremiah 30:7
Wrath poured out on the whole earth
Revelation