Can sinners be saved in the Tribulation who heard the gospel before the Rapture?
CAN sinners who heard the gospel and are “Left Behind” at the Rapture be saved in the Tribulation Period? Anxious people have been asking this question since the first century. Have you ever asked this question? Because of the persecution the Thessalonians were enduring, they had been deceived into thinking they had missed the rapture and were in the Tribulation. The deceivers of the Thessalonians were the original posttribulationalists. Paul in 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12 gives his most concentrated development of the Day of the Lord to convince the Thessalonians that they were not in the Tribulation. Paul enumerates four events that must transpire before the Day of the Lord or in this context the Tribulation. The first event is the rapture (2:1). Next is “the apostasy” in the 2:2, 3. The third event is the revelation of the lawless one or the antichrist (2:3b-4). The fourth event is the removal of the restrainer in 2:5-12. These are not in order of sequence. Dwight Pentecost argues convin
