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.