Jesus, Paul, and a heavenly angel warn the church of the singular event that they must be prepared for before the second coming: the revelation of the Antichrist and his ensuing great tribulation against the church and Israel. “So when you see the abomination of desolation–spoken about by Daniel the prophet—standing in the holy […]
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Doug Stauffer, All Bluster and No Bite
Pretrib, hyper-dispensationalist Doug Stauffer is out there going on radio shows arguing for his pretrib view with really, really bad arguments. Here is the most recent of his. He is also attacking the prewrath position. He is conveying the following bluster, which can be summarized as follows: Stauffer: I challenge prewrathers to defend your view […]
A Reply to David Reagan’s So-Called Critique of the Prewrath Position (Part 3 of 3) – Ep. 21
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http://traffic.libsyn.com/thebiblicalprophecyprogram/021-Response_to_Reagan_part_3.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed(I am posting this week’s program a couple of days early.) In this program I concluded my series responding to Dr. David Reagan of Lamb & Lion Ministries. I first responded to his objection that prewrath teaches an additional 30-day period after the seven-year period. Reagan says […]
Calvary Chapel Pastor David Guzik Cancels Plans for the Rapture Debate
Last year, Calvary Chapel Santa Barbara Pastor David Guzik communicated to me his willingness to participate in a public moderated rapture debate: Pre-trib vs. Pre-wrath. Some of you wanted to know what the status of it is. I am sorry to announce that it will not happen. Guzik and I were planning a debate in […]
A Reply to David Reagan’s So-Called Critique of the Prewrath Position (Part 2 of 3) – Ep. 20
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http://traffic.libsyn.com/thebiblicalprophecyprogram/020-Response_to_Reagan_Part_2.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedI was hoping to finish up David Reagan’s article today but we will have to do a Part 3 next week. In Part 2, I first addressed his misunderstanding of the structure of Matthew 24 explaining that vv. 9–14 is developed in vv. 15–31. In other words, […]
A Reply to David Reagan’s So-Called Critique of the Prewrath Position (Part 1 of 3) – Ep. 19
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http://traffic.libsyn.com/thebiblicalprophecyprogram/A_Reply_to_David_Reagans_So-Called_Critique_of_the_Prewrath_Position_Part_1_of_2.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedNo mincing words on today’s program. I responded to the first half of David Reagan’s shallow pretrib “critique” of the prewrath position. I first talked about “the lie.” The Lie is Reagan’s continued falsehood that prewrath teaches the rapture will happen “3/4th” into the “tribulation period.” I […]
Why Dr. David Reagan Refuses to Defend His Pretribulationism Publicly
I have had a standing debate invitation for David Reagan of Lamb & Lion Ministries for several years now. Recently, Reagan wrote a few blog articles critiquing prewrath. They were really bad and shallow. So I issued another challenge to him in the combox of one of his articles. Today, he wrote me via email […]
What Does the Pre-Wrath Rapture Position Teach? – Ep. 17
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http://traffic.libsyn.com/thebiblicalprophecyprogram/017-What_Does_the_Prewrath_Rapture_Position_Teach.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedI described the prewrath position by outlining 15 essential tenets that someone must affirm in order to hold to a prewrath position. They are core minimum beliefs. If someone denies any of these definitional points they cannot be said to be prewrath in a meaningful sense of […]
Is Chuck Missler of the Koinonia Institute Moving Away from the Pretrib Interpretation?
A friend sent me a quote from this week’s K-House Weekly eNews newsletter dated December 8, 2014, titled, “Rethinking the Blood Moon Coincidences.” It is written by William P. Welty under the auspices of Chuck Missler. FIRST, Welty refutes the Mark Biltz’s eclipse moon theory by a single grammatical point: As a Hebrew and Greek […]
Greg Laurie DENIES the Imminent Rapture of the Church
http://www.christianpost.com/news/greg-laurie-no-question-these-are-the-end-times-americas-role-as-superpower-will-diminish-as-new-world-order-forms-130582/ Pretrib teachers are notorious for committing a major contradiction in their system. On one side of their mouth they believe in the “any moment” (i.e. imminent) rapture of God’s people, which means, according to their own definition, there cannot be any prophesied events that must occur before the rapture. Then on the other side […]
Pre-Trib Bible Prophecy Questions for a Pre-Wrath Exponent – Ep. 15
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http://traffic.libsyn.com/thebiblicalprophecyprogram/015-Pretrib_Questions_for_a_Prewrather.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedI played my interview from View From the Bunker hosted by Derek Gilbert. He asked me about fifteen questions, many of them that pretribulationists frequently ask of the prewrath position. The following are questions and topics we discussed: -How is prewrath different from the pre-trib, mid-trib, and […]