Summary It is concluded that: 1. Early church fathers did not predominantly teach pretribulationism as it is taught today. But neither did they teach modern posttribulationism. 2. Imminency is not a primary biblical evidence for pretribulationism. It is a necessary deduction from pretribulationism. 3. Dave MacPherson unintentionally and inadvertently documented historically that neither Edward Irving nor Margaret McDonald originated or taught pretribulationism. Of all the evidences, historical arguments