Analytical Table of Contents

1. Introduction

• A Plain, Literal Approach

• Pentecost's Things to Come Eschatology

• Pre-Tribulationism Is Based on Inferences and Is Not Specifically Taught in Scripture

• Burden of Proof

2. The Biblical Basis for Post-Tribulationism

• One Rapture Passage

• "The Rapture," A Bad Term?

• 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

• 2 Thessalonians 1:5-10

• 2 Thessalonians 2:1-3

• Revelation 20:4-5

• 1 Corinthians 15:50-55

• Matthew 24:29-31

• Luke 17:26-31

• 2 Peter 3:8-15

3. Order and Scope of the Book of Revelation

• Introduction

• Does This Book Apply to Us?

• Various Opinions on the Order

• A Biblical Approach

• Literary Flow vs. Chronological Order

• Not Appointed to Wrath?

4. Various Themes

• Day of the Lord

• Last Trumpet

• Last Day

• The Restrainer

• The Legitimacy of Parallels (Similar or Identical?)

5. Key Greek Words and Terms

• Coming, parousia

• Tribulation, thlipsis - NOT Wrath

• Wrath, orge/thumos

• Take, paralambano

• Now Concerning, peri de

• Falling Away, apostasia

• Descend From, katabaino ek

• To Meet, apantesis

• Remain, perileipomai

6. But what about . . .

• Imminency?

• Mortals in the Kingdom?

• Revelation 3:10?

• Revelation 4:1-2?

• The Sheep and the Goats? The Wheat and the Tares?

• Daniel's Seventieth Week? - for Israel Only?

• John 14:1-3?

• Revelation 19 and 20?

• The Two Mountain Peaks?

• Necessary Time Interval?

• No Church in Revelation 4-19?

• Doesn't Post-Tribulationism Make Everybody Lukewarm?

7. History of Pre- and Post-Tribulationism

• No Pre-Tribulationists Before the Last Century

• The Early Church

8. Supporting Arguments

• John Fellow Partaker in THE Tribulation

• Behold He Is Coming (Rev. 1:7)

• Don't Take Them Out of the World (John 17:15)

• Through Many Tribulations we Must Enter the Kingdom (Acts 14:22)

• Signs of A Divine Visitation

• Present or Imminent?

• Israel in Egypt, Noah, etc.