‘Come for His Saints . . . Come with His Saints’ While posttribulationism wrongly believes that the rapture and the second coming denote the same event, pretribulationism commits the opposite error by separating the events. Pretribulationism claims that the rapture occurs before Daniel’s seventieth week begins, i.e. the seven-year period, while the second coming occurs […]
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Matthew 24:30–31 Is NOT Describing the Battle of Armageddon in Revelation 19:11–21
[Today, I am starting a four-part article series, The Second Coming Does Not Begin with Armageddon. This is Part 1.] The battle of Armageddon is not the event that begins the second coming (the parousia). It is a deep-seated assumption among many pretrib and posttrib interpreters that Matt 24:30–31 is a parallel passage to […]
Where Is the Rapture in the Book of Revelation?
This is good ol’ fashion comparing Scripture with Scripture. Notice all five passages link between (1) Christ appearing in the sky and (2) the gathering of God’s people. 1 Thessalonians 4:15–17 “For we tell you this by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming [parousia] of […]
Intervening events before Jesus’ Return play a POSITIVE role in our looking for Jesus Himself
Robert H. Gundry rightly notes that the purifying influence of Jesus’s return is not some supposed “unexpected moment” of Jesus’s return but rather: [O]ur whole life will pass in review before the Lord. . . . The character and consequences of an event determine its motivating force much more than the time of its occurrence. […]
My 3 Year Old Refuted Psychological Pretrib Imminency!
I told my 3 year old son that he had to wait until Christmas day to open up his presents. In other words, it was not an imminent event but rather a delayed intervening period. Was his response “diminished hope” as pretibbers would have you believe if there was an intervening period before the rapture? […]
Spectator Vs. Participator Eschatology
Pretrib vs. Prewrath eschatology can be viewed from the perspective of Spectator vs. Participator eschatology. Pretrib eschatology represents adherents that possess a spectator posture. Pretrib books, films, and conferences tantalize their audiences with Bible prophecy from their safe spaces. They are convinced that they will never have to participate in the martyrdom of the Antichrist. […]
Dr. Brock Hollett Talks about His Debate Invitations to Preterists (Video)
Dr. Hollett gives an update on debate invitations to Jeff Durbin, Ken Gentry, Hank Hanegraaff, and Gary DeMar. Get his book Debunking Preterism: How Over-Realized Eschatology Misses the Not Yet of Bible Prophecy. See other relevant videos of Dr. Hollett here.
9 Passages that Locate the Rapture and Resurrection AFTER the Great Tribulation – Ep. 149
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http://traffic.libsyn.com/thebiblicalprophecyprogram/9_Passages_that_Locate_the_Rapture_and_Resurrection-_Ep.149.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedThis is Session 2 of the 2019 Fall Prophecy Conference at Fellowship Bible Chapel in Sunbury, Ohio. Dr. Alan Kurschner addresses the timing and placement of the rapture and resurrection in relation to the Antichrist’s great tribulation. He identifies nine biblical passages that locate the rapture and […]
Does the Appearing (Epiphaneia) of Christ Occur Seven Years After the Pretrib Rapture?
Yesterday, I critiqued the pretribulation belief that claims the revelation (apokalypsis) of Christ will occur, not at the rapture, but when Jesus comes “with his saints” for the battle of Armageddon. Similarly, pretribulationists make the same claim about the appearing of Christ, that it will not take place at the rapture but at the end […]
A Proposed Itinerary of WHERE Jesus Will Be AFTER the Rapture
I have been asked many times concerning the location of Jesus’s activities after the rapture. It is a common question in prewrath discussions. Robert Van Kampen’s The Sign has a helpful explication of this period. To be sure, in the last 30 years since its publication prewrath has refined this topic. Let me comment on […]
Will Jesus Come FOR HIS CHURCH at the Rapture, But WITH HIS CHURCH at the Second Coming? – Ep 145
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http://traffic.libsyn.com/thebiblicalprophecyprogram/Ep_145_Will_Jesus_Come_FOR_HIS_CHURCH_at_the_Rapture.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedA fundamental presupposition of pretribulationism views the rapture event as disconnected from the second coming. Pretribulationism claims that the rapture occurs before Daniel’s 70th week begins, i.e. the seven-year period, while the second coming occurs after the seven years is complete. Thus, it necessarily disconnects the rapture […]