Just for the readers (I've mentioned this before, but again for clarity), biblically speaking, the word
"return" is used solely in the contexts of His Second Coming
to the earth (
not our Rapture): Lk12:36-37,38,40,42-44 "
when he will
RETURN FROM the wedding" [that is, as
ALREADY-WED]...
THEN the meal [i.e. the G347 thing, in Mt8:11 and parallel]; and in Lk19:12,15,17,19 "
RETURN" and then He will deal out responsibilities having to do with "have thou authority over 10 cities"..."[likewise to him] Be thou over 5".
"Imminence" has to do
only with the idea that all biblical "SIGNS" FOLLOW after [the moment of] our Rapture (none
preceding it). This is not to say that there are no other biblical
indicators, or that we are to be entirely clueless. It has only to do with "sequence/chronology," in that, all
biblically-defined "signs" take place sequentially AFTER our Rapture (the INITIAL "birth PANG [SINGULAR]" taking place AFTER our Departure/Rapture, and being the FIRST moments of the [7-yr] Trib, paralleling both Matt24:4/Mk13:5 and Rev6:2 [not to mention 2Th2:9a/Dan9:27a[26] as well]) and LEAD UP TO and point
toward His Second Coming
to the earth, FOR the promised and prophesied
earthly Millennial Kingdom (not our Rapture).
Thus, technically, the words "imminence" and "return" do not belong in the same context or phrase (as they refer to distinct things at distinct points in the chronology). Pre-tribbers don't say this; they [we Pre-tribbers] don't use such a phrase (unless they are just mindlessly repeating what they've heard others say
)
Just to make things clear.