I’ve been reading the OT with the end time in view (never actually wrote things down) and I came across this last night and had to laugh because I have been a post-tribulationist since the mid 70’s:
Amos 5
“18 Alas, you who are longing for the day of the Lord,
For what purpose will the day of the Lord be to you?
It will be darkness and not light;
19 As when a man flees from a lion
And a bear meets him,
Or goes home, leans his hand against the wall
And a snake bites him.
20 Will not the day of the Lord be darkness instead of light,
Even gloom with no brightness in it?”
I do know that this may not pertain to those living a righteous and just life, but I did have to laugh at how God always covers all the bases.
Another thing I learned is that at that time is there will be a drought and people will thirst, but not for water, for the word of the LORD.
I let preterism sway me for a bit a long time ago but it didn’t last long, I just couldn’t justify it when reading some other versus (don’t remember which off hand)now I don’t want to say the Bible has contradictions but it IS hard to reconcile if you really get into the complexities. After all God does like to keep some things a mystery. Blessed are those who long for the return of the Lord...yet we are warned that the elect will be very few at the time of the end right? that we must “endure” to the end, and it is called the “Great and terrible day of the Lord.” SOme people beleive the 2nd coming of Jesus is different than the day of the Lord, those would be the ones who believe in the rapture I guess.