What does the word 'pre' mean to you anyway? Does it mean the same thing it means to some of the rest of us? To some of the rest of us it means before something. Does your anytime rapture happen before something, during something, or after something, that something being the great tribulation, in this case?
David, it is not pre by itself, just like it is not Anti by itself in Antichrist.
The "pre-trib" rapture view is a term created by its' originators. It is not a term that came directly out of the bible. I don't know who was the first to use the term. But the timing of that labeled rapture view has been around as long as I can remember as meaning before the 70th week of Daniel 9 begins.
The anytime rapture view, I came up with, so I know what it means. One of the reason I came up with it is because one of the shortcomings of the pre-trib rapture view is in its definition of the 70th week as being "the tribulation". Which is misleading because for a big part of the first half of the 7 years the world is not in tribulation, but is saying peace and safety.
So what actually starts the great tribulation? It is the setting up of the abomination of desolation image placed on the temple mount. The image of
the beast.
The person thus has to become the beast before the AoD is made. From Revelation 13, we are informed that the person is mortally wounded and healed before becoming the beast.
It then becomes a matter of finding out why the person is mortally wounded and healed. Which that information is in Ezekiel 28:1-10 of why God has the person killed - for claiming to be God. When does the person claim to have become God? It is when he commits the act in 2Thessalonians 2:4.
Can we figure out a day in the 7 years when 2Thessaalonians 2:4 takes place - no, we can't, not enough information given. ....but what we can assess is that it must be before the 1335 days that the AoD begin. So sometime in the first half of the 7 years, likely around the 3 year mark, the person will go into the temple sit, claim to have achieved God-hood. It is the transgression of desolation act in Daniel 8.
Triggering the beginning of the Day of the Lord in 1Thessalonians5, starting unexpectedly like a thief.
The rapture must take place before then, from what it says in 1Thessalonians5:9-11.
The reason I did not choose "pre-transgression of desolation act" is because many people do not really understand what the transgression of desolation is; as most people know primarily about the abomination of desolation and think in that term. And the transgression of desolation act cannot be pinpointed to a specific day on the timeline in the 7 years, although it will be sometime in the first half. And it would not convey what I think is the key element regarding the rapture to keep in mind - that it can happen "anytime".
Also "pre" is actually not a term used by Jesus in conjunction with the rapture event - but "anytime" is in Luke 21:34-36.
So in summary, "pre" can mean before - in any application, in any subject matter. But the "pre-trib" rapture joint term has a defined definition - that has been well established in the realm of eschatology views as being before
the 70th week begins.
You could say by being pre-70th week - it is pre-GWT judgment, pre-wrath of God begins, pre-abomination of desolation, etc etc -
but that is not what the pre-trib rapture originators are preaching about it, and what it is commonly and widely known to be. Their point is that the rapture must take place before the tribulation which they are defining as the 70th week of Daniel 9 begins.