My bottom line is God. God said He only Returns One More Time.
Either Christ is Lying about when He returns Immediately after Tribulation,
Pre-tribbers believe He
only "RETURNS" one more time.
Pre-tribbers believe He
"RETURNS" immediately after the Tribulation period (of 7 years' duration).
Pre-tribbers believe that His "RETURN"
to the earth in Rev19 (AFTER the Trib), is spoken of in the two
"RETURN" passages in the Gospels:
--"when he will
RETURN FROM the wedding"...
THEN the meal [G347; and its parallels, like in Matt8:11] -
Luke 12:36-37,38,40,42-44,[45-48] and its parallel in Matt24:42-51; and
--
"RETURN" -
Luke 19:12,15,17,19, when He will deal out responsibilities having to do with "have thou authority over 10 cities" and "likewise... be thou also over 5 cities"
and its parallel passage in Matthew 25:14-30 (and another, if I recall rightly)
A few things to notice about these passages ^ (not to mention all the parallels I've included here)... these passages are about His "RETURN
to the earth"... and so His "RETURN" to the earth is as an ALREADY-WED Bridegroom (not for the purpose of BEING WED--*that* has already taken place by this point in the chronology)... and at the time of His "RETURN" to the earth (FOR the promised and prophesied
earthly Millennial Kingdom,
aka "the kingdom OF THE heavenS," aka "the wedding FEAST / SUPPER," aka "the age [singular] TO COME," etc) notice that there are "saints / believers" located on the earth
(see the 8 or so
"BLESSED" passages
like Daniel 12:12--"
BLESSED is he that
waiteth and COMETH TO the 1335 days" i.e. as
still-living persons / saints existing on the earth at the END of the Tribulation period... these will ENTER the MK age in their natural/
mortal bodies capable of bearing children / reproducing... the ONLY ppl who will have that capacity... and of whom Jesus says, "I AM the resurrection
AND THE LIFE... [...after talking about the "though he may DIE" part, goes on to say...]
AND he that
LIVETH and believeth in Me
SHALL NEVER DIE. Believest thou this?"
John 11:25-26, where Martha was acknowledging what she
rightly understood about
"THE LAST DAY" [i.e. the
earthly MK-age time period--"Day=1000yrs"];
...the Gospels showing
only believers / saints / the righteous / the Sheep / those clothed in "garments of wedding" / the "elect" / the SAVED etc as being the ones who
ENTER the MK age... but those later BORN to them are not "BORN automatically righteous," and it is THESE [born to them / grandchildren / etc] who will be the ONLY ones susceptible to "DEATH" in the MK age, when "DEATH" will be much more rare in the MK reserved only for the rebellious... and who
the still-living ones of those at the END of the MK age are who Satan will go forth (put of his prison [of 1000 yrs]) to "DECEIVE" (as his aim)... where Scripture indicates of these that they are:
"the number whom is as the sand of the sea"; I believe it is a mistake to say these are the offspring of ppl who ENTERED the MK age
as UNbelievers / UNsaved persons [tho in mortal bodies, as they are]... especially when you read what the Gospels has to say about the point in time of His "RETURN" to the earth (I've listed some of the terms and phrases that this goes by... I see no instance of UNbelievers / the UNSAVED being who "ENTER" the promised and prophesied EARTHLY Millennial Kingdom age (in their mortal bodies, as they do)
Sorry for the length... maybe someone out there will be benefitted by something in this post, who knows...