Yeah, I think we are in a tribulation. It certainly looks that way more and more. It is Dispensationalists who think there is a "secret" rapture followed by 7 years trib, after which Jesus supposedly makes another showing. Dispensationalism was unheard of in the church until the 1800`s. Thessalonians says Christ resurrects the saints who died in Christ, followed straight away by the living saints receiving glorified bodies, then he takes vengeance on the bad guys with "flaming fire." So I think we are here through whatever tribulations there be, until just before the wrath of God. We don't do wrath. So it is still possible Christ may come soonish. The world becomes increasingly lawless, like Noah's time (check) and increasingly immoral, like Sodom (check), even though people will be doing their "normal thing," then Christ appears in the clouds with a heavenly host and everybody is gonna see. The bad guys are gonna be scared. They don't escape.
Yeah, I think we are in a tribulation. It certainly looks that way more and more. It is Dispensationalists who think there is a "secret" rapture followed by 7 years trib, after which Jesus supposedly makes another showing. Dispensationalism was unheard of in the church until the 1800`s. Thessalonians says Christ resurrects the saints who died in Christ, followed straight away by the living saints receiving glorified bodies, then he takes vengeance on the bad guys with "flaming fire." So I think we are here through whatever tribulations there be, until just before the wrath of God. We don't do wrath. So it is still possible Christ may come soonish. The world becomes increasingly lawless, like Noah's time (check) and increasingly immoral, like Sodom (check), even though people will be doing their "normal thing," then Christ appears in the clouds with a heavenly host and everybody is gonna see. The bad guys are gonna be scared. They don't escape.