Many post trib people get quite angry about the pre-trib Rapture, and seem determined to suffer, accusing the other side of “escapism.” The scholar you posted, Dr. Reagan, is a proponent of the pre-trib philosophy.
Most of the pastors I know are amillennial. They just figure God will handle things and they don’t need to worry about it. They also don’t believe in literal prophecy fulfillment, aside from the Second Coming itself.
You said — “Many post trib people get quite angry about the pre-trib Rapture, and seem determined to suffer, accusing the other side of “escapism.” The scholar you posted, Dr. Reagan, is a proponent of the pre-trib philosophy.”
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It might be good to develop an understanding as to what other views those of the post-trib (or others) hold, in their religious viewpoints, to get a good idea of their overall religious stance. Sometimes you can tell something from that. I don’t mind people knowing my overall religious stance. I think it all fits together fairly well...
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And then you were saying — “Most of the pastors I know are amillennial. They just figure God will handle things and they don’t need to worry about it. They also don’t believe in literal prophecy fulfillment, aside from the Second Coming itself.”
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Well, we could learn something from the history of the development of these various positions and how they’ve shifted over time (like the amillennial position). Also, talking about prophecy fulfillment, one should look at the prophecies of Jesus’ first coming and then ask if they were literally fulfilled, or they were spiritually fulfilled. I would imagine that in the same way that the prophecies of the first coming of Jesus were fulfilled, it should be the same way for the end times, too...
Anyway, that’s what I think.