Editing Rapture (section)

==== Posttribulational premillennialism ====
{{Main|Posttribulation rapture}}

In the posttribulation premillennial position, the rapture would be identical to the second coming of Jesus or as a meeting in the air with Jesus that immediately precedes his return to the Earth before a literal millennium. The posttribulation position places the rapture at the end of the tribulation period. Posttribulation writers define the tribulation period in a generic sense as the entire present age, or in a specific sense of a period of time preceding the second coming of Christ.<ref>{{cite book |first= John F. |last= Walvoord |author-link= John Walvoord |title= The Rapture Question |publisher= [[Zondervan]] |year=1979 |orig-year= 1957 |edition= Revised and enlarged |isbn=978-0-310-34151-2 |page= 128}}</ref> The emphasis in this view is that the church will undergo the tribulation.<ref>{{Cite book | title = A Basic Guide to Eschatology: Making Sense of the Millennium | last = Erickson | first = Millard J. | publisher = [[Baker Publishing Group|Baker Book House]] | location = Grand Rapids, Michigan |year=1998 |edition= revised |orig-year= 1977 |page= 152 | isbn = 0-8010-5836-8}} Originally published in 1977 under the title ''Contemporary Options in Eschatology: A Study of the Millennium''.</ref> {{bible verse || Matthew|24:29–31|KJV}} – "''Immediately after the Tribulation of those days...they shall gather together his elect...''" – is cited as a foundational scripture for this view. Posttribulationists perceive the rapture as occurring simultaneously with the second coming of Christ. Upon Jesus's return, believers will meet him in the air and will then accompany him in his return to the Earth. 

In the [[Epistles of Paul]], most notably in {{bible verse|1|Thessalonians|4:16–17|KJV}} ("the dead in Christ shall rise first") and {{bible verse|1|Corinthians|15:51–52|KJV}}, a [[Shofar|trumpet]] is described as blowing at the end of the tribulation to herald the return of Christ; {{bible verse || Revelation|11:15|KJV}} further supports this view. Moreover, after chapters 6–19, and after 20:1–3 when Satan is bound, {{bibleverse || Revelation|20:4–6|KJV}} says, "and they lived, and reigned with Christ a thousand years. But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This ''is'' the first resurrection. Blessed and holy ''is'' he that hath part in the first resurrection."

Authors and teachers who support the posttribulational view include [[Pat Robertson]], [[Walter Ralston Martin|Walter R. Martin]], [[John Piper (theologian)|John Piper]], [[George Eldon Ladd|George E. Ladd]],<ref>{{cite book |last= Ladd |first= George Eldon |author-link= George Eldon Ladd |title= The Blessed Hope: A Biblical Study of the Second Advent and the Rapture |publisher= [[William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company|Eerdmans]] |year= 1990 |orig-year= 1956 |url= https://archive.org/details/blessedhopebibli00ladd |isbn= 978-0802811110 }}</ref> [[Robert H. Gundry]],<ref>{{cite book|last= Gundry |first= Robert H. |author-link= Robert H. Gundry |title= The Church and the Tribulation: A Biblical Examination of Posttribulationism |year=1999 |orig-year= 1973 |publisher= [[Zondervan]] |isbn= 978-0310254010}}</ref> and [[Douglas Moo]].