“Pre-wrath rapture view ... it was demolished by Showers book”
Showers did not even critique the actual pre-wrath rapture view but merely responded to two or three books written on the subject years earlier (early nineties, if memory serves me). (Showers wrote this book in 2001.)
I have read every argument against this view that I could find. I did not come to it because I prefer to go through the Great Tribulation or have a fascination with some “new doctrine”. I found in my early years of Bible study that what I had always been taught about the rapture did not fit with the scriptures. I read commentaries and consulted scholars to help me understand what I had missed. What I found was that NO ONE ever formed a systematic exegetical study that demonstrated a pre-tribulational (i.e. pre-seventieth week because the pre-trib view does not properly distinguish what the tribulation is). The theory is purely anecdotal. Rather than exegeting the scriptures, the theory starts with the proposition of a pre-trib rapture and then seeks for proof texts, exactly like cults do to prop up their false doctrines.
The exception to this is, of course, the proper exegesis of Daniel’s seventieth week, which is something all pre-millenials should agree on.
I have seen many Christians foolishly categorize the pre-wrath rapture as heretical even though it is the only systematic, exegetical teaching of the timing of Christ’s return I have seen beyond the proofs that His return is premillennial.
For those who insist on sticking with the failed theory of a pre-tribulational rapture, in spite of the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, I simply present the evidence so that whoever will receive it may receive it. For those who do not, God will show them in time, whether through wisdom, reproof, or (as a last resort) experience.
Do not fall into the deception that the west will never see persecution or trials, and that we will escape these things because Christ will return before things get too difficult. That is a lie from the pit to lull Christians to sleep. And many worldly and half-hearted “Christians” will be deceived by anti-Christs, false teachers, and false prophets (as Christ warned). Many will fall away, as the Bible teaches. There is be a great apostasy BEFORE the Day of the Lord.
Those who are truly His will eventually wake up. But the deception that leads believers to be unprepared for tribulation will be costly.
Perhaps you can provide some insight on what we must do to prepare for the Tribulation...