Pre-Trib, Post-Trib - or No Trib?

I'm still somewhat unconvinced that the Bible really teaches a future Antichrist in a future seven-year Great Tribulation.

The term "The Great Tribulation" does not even occur in the Bible. Jesus mentioned "great tribulation" but never "The Great Tribulation". He was describing the events surrounding the destruction of the Temple and the fall of Jerusalem which occurred circa AD70.

The title "Antichrist" is not mentioned - not even once - in the Book of Revelation. It's mentioned only once in the entire Bible - in I John - and it's almost as a disclaimer. "You have heard that antichrist cometh, but even now there are many antichrists gone out into the world". It seems a bit flimsy to construct a doctrine about a future Antichrist on that verse alone.

Paul mentioned the man of lawlessness who was to stand in the Temple. Seeing the Temple ceased to exist after AD70, the person of which Paul spoke must have come before then, if Paul was speaking about the Temple in Jerusalem. After all, Paul did say that the first-century Thessalonians already knew exactly who it was who was still preventing that person from rising up.

The beast of Revelation 13 could not have represented a single person, because John was told that its seven heads and ten horns represented separate individuals and polities, one of whom, John said, was alive at the time of writing. "...one now is..."

As for Daniel's 70 weeks, I believe it was likely exactly that - seventy weeks - not 69 weeks plus 2000 years plus 1 week.

The Book of Revelation mentioned a 3 1/2 year period several times, but never a seven year period. It's likely each mention described the same 3 1/2 years. Alternatively, if they were consecutive 3 1/2 year periods, and you add them all together, it totals far more than a mere seven years. Either way the seven-year Great Tribulation is difficult to establish either from Daniel or from Revelation.

It would also require three second comings - one before the Tribulation, one at the end, and another one at the end of the Millennium. But the Bible seems to describe one great day of the Lord.

I think many aspects of the prophecies popularly thought to be about the future, have actually already been fulfilled in the timeframe given by the prophecies: 70 weeks for Daniel's 70 weeks; and within "This generation" (Jesus' own generation) for much of Matthew 24.

I think we have one great event to look forward to - the second coming of Christ and the resurrection of the dead. Meanwhile persecutions, tribulations and distress upon nations occur,  and there are many antichrists, while the Gospel continues to be preached to all nations - and then "the end" - not "an" end - but "the" end - shall come, Jesus said.

If so, then this doesn't merely answer the pre-Trib or post-Trib question - it eliminates the very question itself. Perhaps that could explain why the question has been so hard to answer - maybe it's because the question itself is invalid. Maybe the concept of a future Great Tribulation has been unfounded. 

Just wondering!