For a while, I was assuming pre-trib because this is the only idea I was hearing. Then I realized I had never searched the Scriptures to see if anywhere God says anything like "Jesus will return just before the tribulation." The Holy Spirit could have said something like this, in seven words. But everywhere I read a statement about the Rapture, it did not say the Resurrection of the Church Bride, the Rapture, would be just before the trib.
But in Matthew 24:29-31 Jesus says what will happen "immediately after the tribulation of those days". And nowhere does He say He will return or resurrect us "immediately before". And 1 Corinthians 15:52 says we will be raised "at the last trumpet"; and the last trumpet which Jesus talks about is that trumpet which sounds . . . "immediately after" > Matthew 24:31. Plus, the last trumpet mentioned in the book of Revelation > Revelation 11:15 > is followed by voices saying that Jesus will rule; this to me seems like a match with how the trumpet of Matthew 24:31 will come at the resurrection of the elect which is just before Jesus rules during the Millennial kingdom.
Plus, Paul says "the dead in Christ will rise first." (in 1 Thessalonians 4:16) If we get raptured while we are still alive . . . before saved people die for Jesus during the trib., those who die in Christ during the trib won't rise first.
But there is something maybe more important than arguments of words and ideas. There are people who feel God could not take care of them, if they were in the Great Tribulation. Yet, the Bible says there will be people who will live through it; Jesus will even gather His elect, "immediately after", He says. So, in case you don't believe God is able to take care of you, this is not the right reason to believe in pre-trib, in any case.
Paul went through such tribulation. And he says he took "pleasure" in it all, once he was submitting to how God's grace took care of him > see 2 Corinthians 12:7-15. At first, it seems, Paul was trying to make things happen, himself, and things got to him. So, he begged Jesus to take away that thorn "messenger of Satan" who was allowed to mess with him. But he did not need some miracle of convenience, but he needed to do things in the sufficiency of God's grace which could keep any attack of Satan from getting to him. Because God's grace is almighty, with God's own immunity almighty against evil spiritual things messing us, plus this almighty grace makes us unstoppable in doing whatsoever God pleases with us.
I note how Revelation says servants of God will be killed by getting their heads cut off. Possibly, that is not as hard as a lot of suffering Paul went through. Also, ones might cut off heads, because they fear someone could be faking being dead. Satan knows how Paul was stoned but then got back up and went on preaching; so who, then, might be the one who is afraid???? Plus > if evil people in the trib are being tormented and taken out by all those plagues, how much can they be doing to make things really hard for us? They might barely have time to cut off someone's head, before some plague thing has them running or kills them.
And if evil people are dying > I see you won't have to have money or permission to buy anything. For all I know, you can just walk into someone's house or hut or cave and use their food, empty their car of gas, or pick your donkey; and the next day pick another house and refrigerator and car, or hut or cave and donkey.
And adopt the children, God willing, so they may be saved and brought up in Jesus.
Whatever happens, we can make God's use of it. But God's use is all-loving, and our interpretation of pre or mid or post-trib might be self-centered > limited to what we suppose we now could handle, or how now we can understand. There is more to learn, in relation to how to love and live, not only what to believe.