Post Trib Pastor

If someone is so doggedly determined that the church will go through the tribulation, do you think that that person might endanger their own escape, even if they belong to the Lord?.

Q. My younger brother is local church Pastor. But he is an avowed post-tribulationist. No matter how much I try to share with him, that the scriptures clearly teach a pre-tribulation rapture. He gets very angry and aggressive. It seems like I am coming up against a Pharisaical spirit.

But my question is this. If someone is so doggedly determined that the church will go through the tribulation, do you think that that person might endanger their own escape, even if they belong to the Lord?  I am just observing what happened to Lot’s wife, who was clearly looking for the destruction, and not towards the escape, and suffered as a result, even though she escaped the city, but not to safety.

A. Usually when someone gets angry or aggressive in a discussion, it means that they’re not sure of their position but don’t want to be pushed into admitting it.

And as far as using Lot’s wife as an example of believers being left behind in the Rapture, it’s an interesting point, and a friend of mine used to argue that we should all get the rapture we believe in, with pre-tribbers going first, mid- tribbers later, and then post-tribbers going last. But the Bible says we’ll all be changed in the twinkling of an eye. In other words we won’t have time to think let alone hesitate or look back.

I think all believers will go when the Trumpet sounds and our names are called. So don’t worry about winning a pre-Trib argument with your brother. You can explain it to him on the way up.