Arnold Fruchtenbaum claims: “[T]here is nothing in the context of the fifth seal to indicate [that the saints are martyred because they would not bow down to the Antichrist].”* On the contrary, Fruchtenbaum omits an important cohesive tie: “Now when the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those […]
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David Rosenthal on Revelation 6–7 (Prewrath Video)
This is a helpful summary of what prewrath teaches on Revelation 6–7. While I view the fourth seal as the cause of the persecution and resultant martyrdom of the saints depicted in the fifth seal during the Antichrist’s great tribulation, David Rosenthal’s summary articulates a consistent, coherent picture of the progression of events in Revelation […]
The Fifth Seal and ‘The Pretrib Contradiction’ – Ep. 110
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http://traffic.libsyn.com/thebiblicalprophecyprogram/The_Fifth_Seal_and__The_Pretrib_Contradiction___Ep._110.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedThe Pretrib Contradiction exposes the weakness of pretribulation rapture theology. I explained two aspects to this contradiction. First, I talked about how the fifth seal relates (or does not relate) to Paul’s promise in 1 Thess 5:9 about believers not having to experience the day of the […]
Refutation of Dave Love’s Purgatory Interpretation of the Fifth Seal in the Book of Revelation – Ep. 73
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http://traffic.libsyn.com/thebiblicalprophecyprogram/Refutation_of_Dave_Loves_Purgatory_Interpretation_of_the_Fifth_Seal_in_the_Book_of_Revelation_-_Ep._73.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedCalvary Chapel pretrib Pastor Dave Love does not think that the Gospel is powerful enough and sufficient to save a sinner from God’s wrath. Only “saints” that are pretribulationally raptured before the seven-year period will be exempt from God’s wrath! Those “tribulational saints” who “grew up in […]
Do the Seals on the Scroll in the Book of Revelation Express the Day of the Lord’s Wrath? – Ep. 13
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http://traffic.libsyn.com/thebiblicalprophecyprogram/013-Are_the_Seals_Gods_Wrath.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedI responded to the very common pretribulational claim that the seals in the book of Revelation express the day of the Lord’s wrath. They argue this namely because it says that Jesus himself opens the seals. I refuted this notion by actually examining the biblical texts in […]
The Natural Progression to the Onset of the Day of the Lord’s Wrath
The prewrath position makes the most sense out of the seals in the book of Revelation. Prewrath places the resurrection and the rapture between the opening of the sixth and seventh seal (Rev 7:9–17). This happens just before the day of the Lord’s wrath begins at the opening of the seventh seal containing the judgment […]
Are the Seven Seals of Revelation’s Scroll the Wrath of God Because Jesus Opens Them Up?
Pretribulationists claim that the seals are part of the day of the Lord’s wrath because it is Jesus who opens them up. In fact, just recently, a prewrather called into Brannon Howse’s Worldview Weekend Radio program with Jimmy DeYoung as his guest. The prewrath caller explained the biblical distinction between the Antichrist’s great tribulation and […]
The Fifth Seal — And “Those Who Die in the Lord From This Moment On!”
(9) Now when the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been violently killed because of the word of God and because of the testimony they had given. (10) They cried out with a loud voice, “How long, Sovereign Master, holy and true, before you judge […]