Responding to: “29. The Holy Spirit as the Restrainer of evil cannot be taken out of the world unless the church, which the Spirit indwells, is translated at the same time. The tribulation cannot begin until this restraint is lifted.”
J.K. McKee
Responding to: “28. The church is uniformly exhorted to look for the coming of the Lord, whereas believers in the tribulation are directed to look for signs.”
Responding to: “27. The exhortation to purify ourselves in view of the Lord’s return has most significance if His coming is imminent (1 John 3:2-3).”
Responding to: “26. The exhortation to look for “the glorious appearing” of Christ to His own (Titus 2:13) loses its significance if the tribulation must intervene first. Believers in that case should look for signs.”
Responding to: “25. The exhortation to be comforted by the coming of the Lord (1 Thess. 4:18) is significant only in the pretribulational view, and is especially contradicted by posttribulationism.”
Responding to: “24. The pretribulational interpretation is the only view which teaches that the coming of Christ is actually imminent.”
Responding to: “23. The pretribulational view as opposed to posttribulationism does not confuse general terms like elect and saints which apply to the saved of all ages with specific terms like church and those in Christ which refer to believers of this age only.”
Responding to: “22. The godly remnant of the tribulation are pictured as Israelites, not members of the church as maintained by posttribulationists.”
Responding to: “21. As opposed to a view of partial rapture, pretribulationism is founded on the definite teaching of Scripture that the death of Christ frees us from all condemnation.”
Responding to: “20. The Scripture clearly teaches that all, not part, of the church will be raptured at the coming of Christ for the church (1 Cor. 15:51-52).”
