The Tribulation is an eschatological event in which God's wrath will be poured out on the earth. The Bible, in many areas, describes what the tribulation will bring. Jesus, in the Gospel of Matthew, told His disciples that in the end times “there will be wars and rumors of wars, nations will rise against nations, famines and earthquakes will occur in different places” (Mt 24:6-7). In the Apocalypse, the seven bowls of God's wrath will be poured out on all the people. Those on the earth will suffer painful afflictions (Revelation 16:2), the seas turning to blood (Revelation 16:3), and earthquakes that destroy cities (Revelation 16:18). These traumatic events show how great the suffering will be in the tribulation near the time of the second coming of the Lord. This great suffering will fall upon those who have not sought God to repent of their sins (Revelation 16:10). However, will God allow those who have been faithful to Him to suffer because of these terrible events or will He save them from tribulation? There are three main views held by scholars and they concern the role Christians will have in the tribulation. Pretribulationism, midtribulationism, and posttribulationism each show when the church will be raptured from the earth. Some factors that contribute to each of these views are the immanence of Christ, the nature of the judgments brought upon the earth, and the textual evidence of the church's presence in the tribulation. The focus of the document will be to examine each vision, highlight aspects of each, and then conclude which vision best aligns with the Scriptures and is the most preferred of the three. Pretribulationism is the rapture view defined as “A belief that teaches that Christ will come in… middle of the paper… they know, in Midtribulationism, that the Lord will return for them in the mid-tribulation. This ability to date Christ's return removes the doctrine of immanence within this view of the tribulation. Immanence has the characteristic of not being able to date or await the return of Christ. Within Midtribulationism and Posttribulationism, there are times, such as the beginning of the Tribulation, that provide a reference point at which time can be measured to determine when the event of Christ's return will take place. A Midtribulationist would argue that Pretribulationists provide the possibility of dating the second coming of Christ by measuring seven years beyond the rapture of the Church. A Midtribulationist would view the first 3 1/2 years of the tribulation as subtle compared to the second half where God's wrath will be evident due to the events that will take place.