sentences:  A.D. 140), which alludes to the idea that believers in Christ will not suffer the tribulation, suggesting a possible pretribulation view.Other antecedents of pretribulationism can be found in "The Apocalypse of Elijah", "The Apocalypse of Pseudo-Ephraem", and "The History of Brother Dolcino" which present clear, early forms of pretribulationism though less refined.Modern pretribulationism gained rise in the seventeenth century with the Puritan preachers Increase Mather and Cotton Mather.