He once predicted the End of Days to be Sept. We'll notify you here with news about. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? Comments 0. Top Stories. Attorney in Arbery case facing criticism: 'We don't want any more Black pastors' 4 hours ago. There is debate over the timing of the rapture in relation to the final tribulation, the final period of unparalleled persecution by the Antichrist.
Some argue that God will not allow the church to suffer under Antichrist. But God does allow the church to suffer in this present age John ; Acts , so what makes the difference, if there is one? There are three main views of the timing of the rapture: pretribulation, posttribulation, and prewrath.
Could you briefly explain the main claims of each position? The pretribulation view teaches that God will rapture the church before the final seven years of this age often called the 70th week of Daniel, from Daniel , or the tribulation. It depends in part on making a distinction between the coming of Christ to rapture the church and the coming of Christ to return to earth to reign.
Posttribulationism teaches that the church will be raptured at the very end of the age, when Christ returns to reign. The church will be caught up to meet the Lord in the air and immediately return to earth with him. The prewrath view teaches that the wrath of God is poured out sometime in the final three and a half years before the end of the age, after the start of the final persecution by Antichrist.
You argue for the prewrath position. What are the main supporting arguments for this position? The first point is derived especially from Matthew 24; 2 Thessalonians 2; and Revelation The second point is derived especially from 1 Thessalonians 4 and 5 and Revelation 7 and Of course, both points consider numerous corollary issues and passages.
In the main, though, pretribulationism is ruled out by the first point and posttribulationism by the second. That is, if the abomination of desolation is an event we can observe happening, wouldn't that signal that the rapture will be imminent? Since the prewrath position requires the rise of Antichrist and his abomination of desolation before the rapture, it means that, in this view, the rapture is not imminent in the sense of being able to happen at any moment.
Matthew —33 suggests that this is proper. Do you think it gives off the impression that Christians are just eager to escape the world and leave it to its own destruction?
Paul enjoined against something like the first problem in the Thessalonian letters and Jesus something like the second in John. Getting things straight scripturally is important, but majoring on the minors and becoming arrogant and unloving in the process, both toward insiders and outsiders, is not of the Spirit.
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