totally..my friend and I don't believe that Scripture clearly teaches that.. I am Bible believing dispensational pre tribber...
Then you'll definitely want to get in on the Rapture Caucus thread... :-)
“totally..my friend and I don’t believe that Scripture clearly teaches that.. I am Bible believing dispensational pre tribber...”
You see, I come at it from the opposite direction. I can’t find where the Scripture clearly teaches a pre tribulation rapture. There is, however, what I consider to be a pretty clear timeline in 1 & 2 Thes. that makes it pretty clear that the rapture occurs when Christ returns - and not before. I’m sure you have many good reasons to believe what you believe, but sometime you might want to check those passages out - they might surprise you. They did me. And I would have considered myself pretty staunchly pre trib.