I thought this all happened in AD 70 per Christ’s prediction? Post-Trib is where it’s at. (Well I can’t say I know that)
Nevertheless I’ve always found Post Trib interesting.
meaning we’re living in post trib? If so- there’s too much evidence that we’re not- I know some believe the rapture happened already but I don’t think there’s good evidence for that-
So here in verse 3 we find the Apostles asking Jesus questions that He then proceeds to answer throughout the remaining verses of the chapter.
“and what shall be the sign of thy coming”
The ‘coming’ of Jesus being asked about here is of His ‘second coming’ not the Rapture of the Church. The Apostles could not have been asking Jesus about the Rapture of the Church as they had no knowledge at this time of the promise of Rapture. The promise of Rapture was told to Paul much later.
>Except Paul used the same word you cited in 24:3, and the same word Jesus referred to throughout the olivet concourse: “parousia.” To Paul, the coming, or parousia, was a singular event, not two events separated years apart.
Paul was simply following Jesus in his olivet discourse, he was not setting forth a doctrine of two second comings.
Nowhere does Paul use the term “the rapture” to define a separate event in distinction from the “parousia.” The “catching up,” or “rapture” is but an incident of the singular “parousia” event. Pretribs should be featuring Christ coming in power and glory, instead of something that is only incidental to it.