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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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The event is explicit; the real dispute is its timing
…t all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed." —1 Corinthians 15:51-52 "We shall not all sleep" means that not every believer…
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The positive argument of the whole series, brought together
…thering where Revelation narrates none. Midtribulationism depends upon identifying Paul's last trumpet with Revelation's seventh angelic trumpet and fixing that trumpet at the midpoint. These proposals contain serious arguments, but their apparent simplicity carries cumulative co…
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