Because the Pre-Trib Rapture has become very much the face of Futurism as a whole, you’ll see a lot of people who aren't Futurists mock it in the same way Posttribulationists do.
An internal debate among Futurists technically shouldn’t concern us at all. But the thing I noticed back when I was still a Mid-Trib Futurist and still observe today is that when you break down the specific matters of Scriptural Interpretation that Pre-Trib and Post-Trib (and Mid-Trib) Futurists disagree on, all non Futurists are in agreement with the Pre-Tribbers over Post-Tribbers on something.
The reason Pre-Trib is the worst position to take within the framework of Premillennial Futurism is because of the things that Matthew 25 and II Thessalonians 2 clearly and unambiguously place before The Parousia/Rapture.
However if you are a Premillennial Historicist or Post Millennial of either the Partial Preterist or Historicist variety then you probably believe all of those things have already happened. (I believe the Great Tribulation was various Persecutions the Church has already endured, the Abomination of Desolation was Hadrian’s Idol, there has been more than one Apostasy and the “Man of Sin in the Temple of God” is Monarchy within The Church.)
So we very much can be and sometimes are functionally in agreement with Pre-Tribbers on Imminence. However I definitely agree with Post-Tribbers over Pre-Tribbers on what the Parousia/Rapture is and will look like. It’s not going to look to non Believers like just a bunch of people vanishing, everyone will see The Son of Man coming in The Clouds.
Full Preterists (and often Partial Preterists who focus on AD 70) however are more like Pre-Tribbers in what they think The Rapture is, they very much believe in a Secret Rapture, that Jesus returned but every eye did NOT see Him.
The AD 70 fixation also creates agreement with the strictest definition of what Pre-Trib means, the events in Josephus Wars Book 6 Chapter 5, The Yossipon and Tacitus that they identify with being the fulfilment of 1 Thessalonians 4 happened in 66 or 67 AD, before or at the start of the 7 year period, 3 to 4 years before any of the events they consider identifying with The Abomination of Desolation. All the events that the above cited chapters place before the Parousia they place after it just like Pre-Tribbers do.
Google’s annoying AI Review doesn't know this though, I google “Rapture AD 67” and it says no one places The Rapture that year but Preterists places it in 70. It shows how stupid Generative AI is, it’s incapable of investigating the details of what it’s talking about beyond the surface level. I discovered this when I was trying to refined websites where Full Preterists try to identify The Rapture Trumpet with what happened when Nero tried to cut through the Isthmus in Achaia.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen any belief Strawmanned by people who claim to have actually held it at one time more than the Pre-Trib Rapture. When I see someone say things like “I didn’t make plans for the future” I don’t believe them, either they never really understood the Eschatology they claimed to uphold or they are lying now. I have known lots of serious Pre-Trib believers, none of them act like that. Being prepared for it to happen at any moment doesn't mean being unprepared for it not happen, the smart thing is objectively to be prepared for either. Just like being prepared in case you Die unexpectedly.
But it’s the former Pre-Tribbers who are now no longer Believers at all who most annoy me, because they talk about being scared of it. Not scared of being “Left Behind”, scared of being Raptured. If you were thinking of The Rapture as basically the same thing as dying then you never understood The Gospel, The Rapture is The Resurrection, it’s Salvation from Death, it’s not an End but a New Beginning.. If you didn’t view The Rapture definitionally as a Happy Ending you didn’t truly Believe in It, you only believed certain things about it.
But given how these bad understandings of The Rapture were held by people raised in the Belief, the blame I would say goes to their parents who clearly taught it badly.
Update: And no the Great Commission does NOT say "Make disciples of all Nations" that's a Mistranslation. The Gospel has been published in every Nations. Revelation 20 depicts the Kingdom as still a Set Apart Camp when the final Resurrection happens.
The Author of the book Victorious Eschatology in the YT videos from him I watched years ago very explicitly agrees with Imminence in his discussion of Revelation 20. There are several aspects to his approach I disagree with however.
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