It's clear I caught you making a claim you can't substantiate, you've got nothing that will withstand scrutiny, and now you're employing the "posture and avoid" technique by going ad hominem on me.
I haven't mischaracterized anything. I said you would come up short on proof of your claim that the Pre-Trib Rapture was espoused in the Patristic Era. And you've failed just as I predicted.
So why not share what you have studied for the benefit of others who believe in a PTR?
See, I don't think you've studied this. You've merely read something done by another person and are mindlessly parroting what that person claimed.
Ah, the old ‘see if we can bait a response we can ridicule’ approach. well, Hank, you can deny it all you want but your own posts tell the truth about you: “To say the least, said poster has failed in trying to substantiate that claim” I have not tried to substantiate any claim with ‘an ego pig’. When you purposely mischaracterize it exposes the real spirit that is within you ...
So why not share what you have studied for the benefit of others who believe in a PTR?
Here's a couple...
Ephraim The Syrian
Or do you not believe unless you see with your eyes? See to it that this sentence be not fulfilled among you of the prophet who declares: “Woe to those who desire to see the day of the Lord!” For all the saints and elect of God are gathered, prior to the tribulation that is to come, and are taken to the Lord lest they see the confusion that is to overwhelm the world because of our sins.
Irenaeus
“Those nations however, who did not of themselves raise up their eyes unto heaven, nor returned thanks to their Maker, nor wished to behold the light of truth, but who were like blind mice concealed in the depths of ignorance, the word justly reckons “as waste water from a sink, and as the turning-weight of a balance — in fact, as nothing;”(1) so far useful and serviceable to the just, as stubble conduces towards the growth of the wheat, and its straw, by means of combustion, serves for working gold. And therefore, when in the end the Church shall be suddenly caught up from this, it is said, “There shall be tribulation such as has not been since the beginning, neither shall be.