I can remember many sermons from back in the days when I was a "dispy-pre-tribber" preached on (1 Thes. 5:9 )"For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,...", with the main emphasis being that the rapture will keep us from the wrath of God outpoured on the world during the tribulation period.

So, yes...I would say in that sense, it is a type "liberation theology." I remember hearing one who said that he was a pre-tribulationalist because he knew "...God loves me too much to put me through all the trouble..."

What twisting of Scripture! Fact is I Thessalonians 5 has nothing to do with a "secret rapture."

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Sterling Harmon
Coventry, CT
PCA
Deacon
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