What is the tribulation and will Christians go through it?

In this video, Sean McDowell and Dr Alan Hultberg dig into the biblical case for a post-tribulation view of the end times. Dr Hultberg is editor of the book: “Three Views on the Rapture: Pretribulation, Prewrath, or Posttribulation” (Counterpoints: Bible and Theology).

Hultberg traces the concept of tribulation from Daniel through Jesus Olivet Discourse, Paul’s letters, and the book of Revelation — showing why the church will not be raptured out before the tribulation, but preserved through it. Jesus said we will be taken out before God pours out His wrath upon the Earth but that occurs with the Trumpet and Bowl judgements that commence with the trumpet blast at the opening of the seventh seal. It is at the sixth seal we see the cosmic signs that Jesus said would precede His coming on the clouds to rapture His Saints. It is also at the sixth seal that it says the great day of God’s wrath has come:

“calling to the mountains and rocks ‘Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?” Revelation 6:16

It is shortly after the seventh seal that John sees the multitude of raptured Saints in heaven standing before the throne of God.

“After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!” Revelation 7:9