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This is a basic look at why we believe what we believe which I hope confirms or challenges some of your eschatological (end time) ideas. Our belief that there will be a Pre-Tribulation Rapture of the Church stands on the Biblical foundation of the following principles.
In this short work the author will examine the most popular views of the rapture: the pretribulation and postribulation views. However, of first importance is a proper working definition of the term “rapture” and an establishment of a framework within which to operate for the purposes of this work.
The future coming of the Messiah, called the “rapture,” is imminent, literal and visible, for all church saints, before the hour of testing, premillennial, and, based on a literal hermeneutic, distinguishes between Israel and the church.
1. What does “rapture” mean? 2. Will there be an eschatological “rapture”? 3. Will the “rapture” be partial or full? 4. Will the “rapture” be pre, mid, or post in a time relationship to Daniel’s seventieth week? The scope of this article does not allow for discussing the chief deficiencies of other positions.
There are four main views concerning the timing of the Rapture: pre-tribulational, mid-tribulational, pre-wrath, and posttribulational. Each of these have advanced an argument and each one is convinced theirs is the proper understanding of the Biblical data.
The ‘Rapture’ is an interpretation based on a number of passages of scripture which prophesy that all saved believers (as distinct from unsaved members of the professing church), who are alive at the time of this event, will be caught up in the air to meet Christ, will receive immortalised or glorified bodies, and will dwell thereafter with Chri...
What Is the Rapture? The two key passages on the Rapture are 1 Corinthians 15:50-53 and 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18. 50. Now I say this, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51.
