Subject: Pre-Tribulation Rapture |
Bible Note: Trib Trash Part 3 It is worth quoting the key verses in several Bible translations, to drive home the point: Matthew 24:29 is the Link Between the Tribulation and the Rapture: King James: "Immediately after the tribulation of those days..." New King James: "Immediately after the tribulation of those days..." American Standard: "But immediately after the tribulation of those days..." Living Bible: "Immediately after the persecution of those days..." New International: "Immediately after the distress of those days..." Revised Standard: "Immediately after the tribulation of those days..." Simple English: "Soon after the trouble of those times..." Mark 13:24 Contains the Same Teaching: King James: "But in those days, after that tribulation..." New King James: "But in those days, after that tribulation..." American Standard: "But in those days, after that tribulation..." Living Bible: "After the tribulation ends..." New International: "But in those days, following that distress..." Revised Standard: "But in those days, after that tribulation..." Simple English: "After the trouble of those times..." So, the rapture and Second Coming come AFTER the tribulation. The pre-trib rapture theory is therefore false, or on very shaky ground indeed. The alternatives – the 'mid-trib' and 'post trib' raptures – contradict the "no-one knows the day or the hour" statement. Conclusion: none of the Protestant 'Great Tribulation' theories are biblical. The 'Great Tribulation' scriptures actually refer to the Great Apostasy, when the Christian church was "in the hand of" the little horn for 1260 years.This ended in 1830 |