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Article · RaptureThe Rapture: A Cumulative Biblical Case

Four Difficult Texts for Pretribulationism

The man of sin, the last trumpet, the first resurrection, and the last day

Four Difficult Texts for Pretribulationism The man of sin, the last trumpet, the first resurrection, and the last day A cumulative case should be exposed to the passages which appear least friendly to it. Four objections deserve particular attention: Se…

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Article · RaptureThe Rapture: A Cumulative Biblical Case

Why the Cumulative Case Points to a Pretribulation Rapture

The positive argument of the whole series, brought together

…ns 2:3-8). Revelation resumes Daniel's measured half-week through forty-two months, 1,260 days, and "a time, and times, and half a time". It returns to Israel's tribes, Jerusalem, the temple, the nations, a beastly ruler, and persecuted saints. The Church is not removed from this…

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Daniel's Seventieth Week and the New Testament Tribulation

Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem

…lation returns to Daniel's imagery and repeatedly uses periods of forty-two months, 1,260 days, and "a time, and times, and half a time". The question is whether these are disconnected crises or the developing parts of one prophetic structure. If the correlations hold, the New Te…

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Did Darby Invent the Pretribulation Rapture?

What the historical evidence proves—and what it does not

…tau, Commentary on the Apocalypse The Shepherd of Hermas, Vision 4 Pseudo-Ephraem, On the Last Times, the Antichrist, and the End of the World Morgan Edwards, Two Academical Exercises on Subjects Bearing the Following Titles; Millennium, Last-Novelties (1744; published 1788) Fran…

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