What is a Pre-tribulation Rapture? We have lived in a culture embedded for the past 200 years in the idea of a pre-tribulation Rapture. The Rapture is believed to precede the Tribulation at the end of the world. Obviously, the Rapture precedes the timeline which it triggers, and no one knows what triggers the timing of the Rapture. In actuality, there is no specified timing of the Rapture. Because the return of Christ is believed to be imminent, the Rapture could hap