I really enjoy Ellen Kavanaugh’s website. Her Jewish perspective is an insightful and a fresh vantage point for me. I found many good arguments against a pre-tribulation rapture in her essay “Understanding: Post-Trib Rapture”
The saddest thing about the pre-trib rapture theory, in my opinion, is that it turns people into escapists instead of steadfast followers with endurance. Many believers in other countries are being severely persecuted for their faith, yet in the USA, many believers seem convinced that trials and tribulations aren’t intended for them. Some modern believers want a health-n-wealth gospel. Pastors are wrongly teaching their flocks a name-it-and-claim-it gospel, where G-d gives believers whatever their hearts desires and then removes them at the first sign of trouble.
Following Yeshua is serious. Can you imagine believing in something that could cost you your life? The gospel could cost you your life in these latter days just as it did in earlier years. Those unprepared, those looking for escape, those so sure “Well, G-d wouldn’t let *me* go through The Tribulation” … those will not be able to endure when the reality of the situation becomes obvious. G-d wants a strong ekklesia (assembly of ‘called-out ones’). “And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.” Mattityahu 10:38,39
~ Ellen Kavanaugh
Without having done any research of my own, Ellen makes some very logic based arguments that make it all seem so simple and clear, why does it always seem so complex?