There is no pretrib rapture. It was a theological concept devised in the 1830s by John Darby. I make this statement fully supported by the Word.
Revelation 20:4
"I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years."
Quoting: Bananael Whose word?
One the 1830 BS is just that, BS.
Irenaeus
His quote that is unmistakably teaching a pre-tribulation rapture.
"And therefore, when in the end the Church shall be suddenly caught up from this, it is said, There shall be tribulation such as has not been since the beginning, neither shall be.
Hippolytus, sees the rapture as following the tribulation and rule of the Antichrist:
"These things, then, being to come to pass, beloved, and the one week being divided into two parts, and the abomination of desolation being manifested then, and the two prophets and forerunners of the Lord having finished their course, and the whole world finally approaching the consummation, what remains but the coming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ from heaven, for whom we have looked in hope? (On Christ and Antichrist)."
