The pre-tribulation rapture doctrine isn’t just incorrect theology. It is weaponized passivity, a spiritual pacification program that trains Christians to await evacuation while Babylon secures the battlefield.

It trains Christians to scan the horizon for an escape pod while Babylon burns the ground beneath their feet. Endurance becomes Plan B. Rescue is the real promise. It implies that true, faithful Christians will be spared the ultimate crisis. that suffering the Tribulation is a sign you’ve been left behind. The message is clear: if you are faithful, you will not have to face the fire.

That is not theology. That is desertion training.

Psychologically, the doctrine is flawless. It feels merciful, sounds Biblical if you squint at Thessalonians, and offers the ultimate fantasy. Skip winter entirely and wake up in eternal spring without the crucible. No tribulation. No refining. Just beam up and let someone else deal with collapse.

Babylon could not have designed a more effective pacification protocol.

I watched that Nicolas Cage movie this week. Could not keep a straight face for ten minutes.

Pilots vanishing mid-flight. Cars crashing because drivers disappeared. Planes falling from the sky. Chaos, panic, global catastrophe, and somehow this is supposed to be good news for believers. All the “leftovers” of humanity suffer while the “chosen ones” are in the clouds playing harps.

Tell me that’s not narcissism.

Christians really watched that mess and thought, “That’s real. I can’t wait to experience that.”

I might need to write a full breakdown, compare that fantasy to what Scripture actually says about endurance and fire.

But the fantasy sticks. Christians shaped by this doctrine do not resist cultural collapse. They surrender institutions, cede influence, and comfort themselves with the promise that none of it matters because they will not be here when the fire rises. Babylon does not have to fight them. It just waits.

The elders did not believe this. The early church expected persecution, not evacuation. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego didn’t get airlifted from the furnace. Daniel didn’t skip the lion’s den. Job didn’t avoid loss. Paul didn’t escape his chains. They walked through winter alive. They were refined in the fire, forged in pressure, and came out stronger.

Transformation happens in the furnace, not the escape hatch. Comfort produces decay. Resistance builds muscle. Saints are forged under heat, not in soft air. The pre-trib doctrine deletes this framework. It whispers that suffering signals abandonment when Scripture shows that suffering is where saints are made.

This doctrine breeds cowardice. When the fire comes and no rescue arrives, its believers collapse. They think God lied, or they were not holy enough, or faith itself is a scam. The fault is not theology. It is them, trained to expect evacuation, not endurance.

Stop waiting. Start building. Plant seeds you will not live to harvest. Treat culture as territory to hold, not disposable scenery. Recognize tribulation as the season that tests, reveals, and shapes real character. Walk through winter alive, refined, unburnable.

The early church did not need a rapture doctrine to endure Rome. They needed the promise that suffering produced endurance, endurance produced character, and character produced hope that never disappointed. They needed to know the same power that raised Christ from the dead was operating in them, not to beam them out, but to sustain them through.

Winter comes. You walk through it. Babylon will test you. Build. Endure. Nothing else matters. Comfort is decay. Resistance is muscle. The furnace purifies gold and burns away dross. You are not getting beamed up before it. You are walking through it, alive, protected, refined.

That is the doctrine Scripture actually teaches.

The rest is just a lullaby Babylon sings to keep you passive while it takes the ground you were supposed to hold.

The pre-tribulation rapture doctrine isn’t just incorrect theology. It is weaponized passivity, a spiritual pacification program that trains Christians to await evacuation while Babylon secures the battlefield.

It trains Christians to scan the horizon for an escape pod while Babylon burns the ground beneath their feet. Endurance becomes Plan B. Rescue is the real promise. It implies that true, faithful Christians will be spared the ultimate crisis. that suffering the Tribulation is a sign you’ve been left behind. The message is clear: if you are faithful, you will not have to face the fire.

That is not theology. That is desertion training.

Psychologically, the doctrine is flawless. It feels merciful, sounds Biblical if you squint at Thessalonians, and offers the ultimate fantasy. Skip winter entirely and wake up in eternal spring without the crucible. No tribulation. No refining. Just beam up and let someone else deal with collapse.

Babylon could not have designed a more effective pacification protocol.

I watched that Nicolas Cage movie this week. Could not keep a straight face for ten minutes.

Pilots vanishing mid-flight. Cars crashing because drivers disappeared. Planes falling from the sky. Chaos, panic, global catastrophe, and somehow this is supposed to be good news for believers. All the “leftovers” of humanity suffer while the “chosen ones” are in the clouds playing harps.

Tell me that’s not narcissism.

Christians really watched that mess and thought, “That’s real. I can’t wait to experience that.”

I might need to write a full breakdown, compare that fantasy to what Scripture actually says about endurance and fire.

But the fantasy sticks. Christians shaped by this doctrine do not resist cultural collapse. They surrender institutions, cede influence, and comfort themselves with the promise that none of it matters because they will not be here when the fire rises. Babylon does not have to fight them. It just waits.

The elders did not believe this. The early church expected persecution, not evacuation. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego didn’t get airlifted from the furnace. Daniel didn’t skip the lion’s den. Job didn’t avoid loss. Paul didn’t escape his chains. They walked through winter alive. They were refined in the fire, forged in pressure, and came out stronger.

Transformation happens in the furnace, not the escape hatch. Comfort produces decay. Resistance builds muscle. Saints are forged under heat, not in soft air. The pre-trib doctrine deletes this framework. It whispers that suffering signals abandonment when Scripture shows that suffering is where saints are made.

This doctrine breeds cowardice. When the fire comes and no rescue arrives, its believers collapse. They think God lied, or they were not holy enough, or faith itself is a scam. The fault is not theology. It is them, trained to expect evacuation, not endurance.

Stop waiting. Start building. Plant seeds you will not live to harvest. Treat culture as territory to hold, not disposable scenery. Recognize tribulation as the season that tests, reveals, and shapes real character. Walk through winter alive, refined, unburnable.

The early church did not need a rapture doctrine to endure Rome. They needed the promise that suffering produced endurance, endurance produced character, and character produced hope that never disappointed. They needed to know the same power that raised Christ from the dead was operating in them, not to beam them out, but to sustain them through.

Winter comes. You walk through it. Babylon will test you. Build. Endure. Nothing else matters. Comfort is decay. Resistance is muscle. The furnace purifies gold and burns away dross. You are not getting beamed up before it. You are walking through it, alive, protected, refined.

That is the doctrine Scripture actually teaches.

The rest is just a lullaby Babylon sings to keep you passive while it takes the ground you were supposed to hold.