Post trib, pre-wrath? What's that. The wrath of God began with the opening of the first seal.
>>It’s why it takes a lifetime and still there is so much more to learn.<<
That's a fact and it's astonishing!
>>But I will say that I have made a good faith effort studying this issue from multiple perspectives since 1981<<
Well, I got a 10 year head start on you so maybe in ten years you will catch up! :-).
A little background. Back in the late seventies to the late eighties I knew Hal Lindsey personally. I argued with him on the 40 year generation thing. Their train of thought was that a generation was from the birth of the father to the birth of the son. But scripture says "this generation shall not pass" and that means that the father's generation will not pass. The fathers generation hasn't passed when the son is born which means 70-80 years instead of 40.
Two things. The bible says, in many places, a generation is 70 years. I know it is an aproximation, but I know Israel became a nation in 1948 and “this generation shall not pass” means approximately 2018.
Now, nobody knows the day, but we are told to recognize the season.
Second thing: I came to Christ through reading “The 1980’s. Countdown to Armageddon”. However, I’ve caught Hal in a bold faced lie in one of his books. Specifically, it was in his book http://www.biblio.com/prophetical-walk-through-by-lindsey-hal/work/134749
It is the caption of a photo in the “upper room”. The caption is even less believeable to someone who is a photographer (me) than Hillary’s email scam is to anyone who had worked with government email (me again).
Still, he was the vessel that brought me to the lord.
Also, regarding pre-trib, my Sunday school teacher at the time I was thinking about mid-trib was a very well versed Christian and had written a white paper on the pre-trib position. I was very excited because I WANTED to believe it was the correct interpretation (who wouldn’t?). The logical fallacies in his arguments actually pushed me MORE to the mid-trib position.