PRETRIBULATIONISM

 1. Rapture occurs before the Tribulation.

2. Church experiences Revelation 3:10 before the Tribulation.

3. Day of the Lord begins with the Tribulation.

4. 1 Thessalonians 5:2–3 occurs at beginning of Tribulation.

5. 144,000 redeemed at start of Tribulation.

6. Rapture and Second Coming separated by seven years.

7. Living Israelites judged at Second Coming.

8. Living Gentiles judged at Second Coming.

9. Parents of millennial population come from survivors of judgments on living Jews and Gentiles.

10. Believers of Church Age judged in heaven between Rapture and Second Coming.  

POSTTRIBULATIONISM

1. Rapture occurs after the Tribulation.

2. Church experiences Revelation 3:10 at end of Tribulation.

3. Day of the Lord begins at close of Tribulation.

4. 1 Thessalonians 5:2–3 occurs near end of Tribulation.

5. 144,000 redeemed at conclusion of Tribulation.

6. Rapture and Second Coming are a single event.

7. No such judgment.

8. Living Gentiles judged after Millennium.

9. Parents of millennial population come from 144,000 Jews.

10. Believers of Church Age judged after Second Coming or at conclusion of Millennium. 

Charles Caldwell Ryrie, Basic Theology: A Popular Systematic Guide to Understanding Biblical Truth (Chicago, IL: Moody Press, 1999), 582.