Sort of a liberation theology for poor white foloks?

I would stay away from the association. The use of a negatively tinged marxist suffused system to describe pre-tribulationalism strikes me as unfair.

In the "sense" that you use it, redemption is a form of "liberation theology" in that we are set free from the penalty, power, and (eventually) presence of sin.

The pre-trib rapture is mainly an extrapolation from a particular form of literal hermeneutic. While some, such as Bob Gundry, have defended post trib views using dispensational assumptions, most people see the dispensational hermeneutic leading to the pre-trib eschatology.

I suspect that if you take a literalistic futurist view of Revelation, the rapture becomes a way of dealing with the unhappy outcome of God's people seeming to suffer the wrath of God along with the world. Those of us in the historic premill camp accept the judgment themes utilizing the Jews in Goshen prior to the Exodus when God was judging the Egyptians.

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