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I personally think the current pre-trib rapture attention (NOT necessarily the doctrine) has to do with the mass-marketing of the Christian religion as a feel-good religion where it's all about what God can do for you and how He can make your life less of a burden. You don't hear persecution preached too often, as is evident by a survey I saw indicating that very few Christians (especially American Christians) are aware that Christians are being martyred at an unprecedented rate in the world. I think the doctrine is being fueled by a sense of escapism among the weak-hearted who don't have a proper understanding of how God could allow His children to endure tribulation.

A note to pre-tribbers: I'm not in any way mounting a challenge to this doctrine scripturally, merely attempting to explain what I feel are the reasons for it's explosive spread recently.

The view of most conservative scholors is that many of those so called "symbolic" passages you refer to are not symbolic at all.

It strains logic to understand how Christ can come; 1. "as a thief in the night" and, 2."with power and great glory and every eye will see Him", at the same time.

More often than not, those who hold to the view that there is one coming of Christ, one judgement, and one resurrection event, are equally wrong on the doctrine of the gospel of the Grace of God that Paul preached.

I do not claim to be authoritative on the subject of escatology. However, to dismiss the pre-trib rapture as scripturally unfounded is a weak arguement to say the least. One can make a very good arguement for either pre, post,or mid tribulation, and pre, post, and amillinial using the word of God.

The truth is only one view can be right. And, what ever your view or mine is, the important thing is this. What have you done about the person and work of Christ? One truth that is not up for discussion is that He is the only way to the Father.