The Didache — Explosive Pretrib Information

The Didache is a very early patristic document, generally dated by evangelical scholars to somewhere between 70 AD to 100 AD. The authors were almost certainly contemporaries with the apostles and the apostolic associates. This document is clearly pretrib. Indeed, it presents three distinct arguments for a pretrib rapture: classic imminence, the choice between glorification and tribulation (the don't be left behind argument), and a partial resurrection at the second coming (the church was already resurrected and will descend with the Lord at Armageddon.