I could cite many other pretribulational teachers committing this all-so-common inconsistency in their rapture theology. But I will use Jack Hibb’s statement as representative. On a recent program of Jan Markell’s Understanding the Times with Jan Markell, her guest Jack Hibbs repeatedly stressed the “imminency” of the rapture that he claims will be “unannounced” that […]
Prewrath
Does Paul Teach There Will Be a “Gap” of Time between the Rapture and the Day of the Lord’s Wrath? – Ep. 40
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Does Jesus Teach There Will Be a “Gap” of Time between the Rapture and the Day of the Lord’s Wrath? – Ep. 39
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The Shofar on Rosh Hashanah and the Seventh Trumpet in the Book of Revelation
Here is a popular article from the archive: https://www.alankurschner.com/2014/09/25/is-there-a-connection-between-the-purpose-of-the-blowing-of-the-shofar-on-rosh-hashanah-and-the-end-of-satans-authority-at-the-seventh-trumpet/
A Reply to Pastor Greg Laurie’s Pretribulational Sermon on the Rapture and the Antichrist – Ep. 38
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http://traffic.libsyn.com/thebiblicalprophecyprogram/038_A_Reply_to_Greg_Lauries_Pretribulational_Sermon_on_the_Rapture_and_the_Antichrist.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedI replied to Harvest Christian Fellowship’s shallow sermon by Greg Laurie on his pretribulational rapture and Antichrist view. He believes the church will be raptured before the Antichrist emerges. He painfully confuses the event of the Antichrist’s great tribulation with the day of the Lord’s judgment. I pointed […]
A Public Invitation to Greg Laurie of Harvest Ministries to Defend His Pretrib Position in a Moderated Debate
Mr. Greg Laurie, you have been doing a series on end-times and you seem very confident that the next event on the calender is the rapture when the church will be swept away from the earth before the Antichrist’s great tribulation. I beg to differ. I think you are dangerously wrong. You have mislead countless […]
Seals, Trumpets, Bowls: Concurrent-Recapitulation or Consecutive-Progressive? (Part 2 of 2) – Ep. 37
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http://traffic.libsyn.com/thebiblicalprophecyprogram/Seals_Trumpets_Bowls__Concurrent-Recapitulation_or_Consecutive-Progressive_Part_2_of_2_-_Ep._37.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedIn part 2, I gave about 10 reasons against the concurrent-recapitulatory interpretation of the book of Revelation while arguing for the consecutive-progressive framework. Seals, Trumpets, Bowls – At the Same Time or One After the Other? Consecutive-Progressive The prewrath position interprets a sequential chronological framework for the […]
What Is the Prewrath View on the Second Coming?
We get new readers every month who are new to the prewrath position. Some have questions about how the prewrath is different from other positions. Here are a few resources that will help. This first one are the tenets of the prewrath position, where only the prewrath position can agree with all of them. And […]
Seals, Trumpets, Bowls in the Book of Revelation: Concurrent-Recapitulation or Consecutive-Progressive? (Part 1 of 2) – Ep. 36
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http://traffic.libsyn.com/thebiblicalprophecyprogram/036-Seals_Trumpets_Bowls.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedIn part 1 of 2 parts, I gave some context to one of the most common interpretations for the posttrib view, where the seals, trumpets, and bowls occur roughly at the same time. Indeed, many posttribs believe the corresponding elements are the same events; i.e. the seventh […]
Archangel Michael, the Restrainer Removed, 2 Thessalonians 2:6–7 (Part 2 of 2) – Ep. 35
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http://traffic.libsyn.com/thebiblicalprophecyprogram/035-Restrainer_Part_2.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedIn part two, I explicated the lines of evidence that Colin R. Nicholl adduces that supports the “Restrainer” being Michael the archangel. 1. Contemporary Jewish literature viewed the characteristics of Michael having eschatological pre-eminence as the chief opponent of Satan and Restrainer of God’s people. 2. Michael is […]
Why Are Many Pretribs Abandoning Their Beliefs and Embracing the Prewrath Position?
See my contributing piece on WND on this question: www.wnd.com/2015/05/winds-of-change-on-the-rapture/