Today I want to show you a couple of mentions of the word tribulation in the book of Romans.
Now I think the biggest problem with people who believe in the pre-trib rapture is that
they just don't know what the word tribulation means.
And that's why I would strongly encourage them to look up the 22 times in the New Testament
that the word tribulation is used.
It's used 22 times.
I challenge you to look up those 22 mentions of the term tribulation.
You'll learn a lot.
And I don't think you'll still be pre-trib after you look at those 22 mentions.
But let me just read for you a couple of mentions from the book of Romans.
Romans 5 says this in verse 3,
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations, also knowing that tribulation worketh patience.
So right there tribulations or trials or troubles are things that we go through and we glory
in them.
Romans chapter 8 says this in verse number, let's see, let's start reading in verse number
33.
Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect?
It is God that justifieth.
Who is he that condemneth?
It is Christ that died, yea rather that is risen again.
Who is even at the right hand of God who also maketh intercession for us?
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
Shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword?
As it is written, for thy sake we are killed all the day long.
We are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
So again in Romans 5 we saw in our tribulations and in Romans 8 we see the same thing.
In all these things, in tribulation, we are more than conquerors through him that loved
us.
The other thing I want to point out about this passage is that in verse 33 he calls
us God's elect.
Who is he speaking to?
The Romans.
He's speaking to the saved whether they be Jew or Gentile.
A lot of false teachers will teach that the elect are Israel today.
Well Israel is not God's chosen people today.
They're not the elect.
We that are in Christ are the elect.
And so the Bible calls us, including Roman Gentile believers, he calls us the elect and
he says we're joyful in our tribulations.
We glory in tribulations.
In our tribulations we are more than conquerors.
Look at those 22 mentions.
None of them supports a pre-tribulation rapture.