Subject: Pre-Wrath Rapture? |
Bible Note: Parousia: I am sincerely sorry. I did not mean to sound so abrasive when I wrote what I did about the word "support." My error. No hostility intended. :-) It's true that THE RAPTURE QUESTION ANSWERED is the only *book* I have read concerning the Pre-Wrath Rapture. However, it is not the only *thing* I have read on the subject. I intend to read on. I intend to read the book "THE SIGN A Biblical Study of End Time Events By Robert Van Kampen. An exhaustive reference work based on more than fifteen years of intense study. It is a sweeping survey of end-times prophecy that spans the breadth of Scripture." If you have something to say about the Pre-Wrath Rapture position, then please feel free to say it here on the Forum. I approached this issue with all honesty and sincerity. It is not that I had already made up my mind and was looking for proof to support what I already believed. I very carefully read and considered the case for the Pre-Wrath Rapture and then accepted it as the accurate and correct position. As for the Pre-Trib Rapture, I have had that drilled into me my whole life. It is the ONLY rapture position I would believe or even listen to for more than 40 years. But before I ever heard of Sign Ministries, I had questions in my mind regarding the Pre-Trib position. There are some things in the Bible, Matthew 24 in particular, that seemed to contradcit the Pre-Trib theory. I am glad that I have had the privilege to finally learn and see what the Bible so clearly teaches on this subject. The main argument against the Pre-Trib Rapture is that nowhere in the Bible does it directly or indirectly say that the Rapture will take place before the 7-year period spoken of by Daniel the prophet (Daniel 9:27) and other prophetic writers of Scripture. Is there a 2 1/2 Coming, a Third Coming, or, as the Bible indicates, a Second Coming? kalos |