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Clear searchWhy apantēsis does not settle the timing of the rapture
…se fellow believers have died. He assures them that the departed will not miss the Lord's coming: "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are a…
Read article →Signs, expectancy, and the event the Church is told to await
If Antichrist Must Come First, Is Christ's Coming Imminent? Signs, expectancy, and the event the Church is told to await Imminency does not mean that Christ was required to return within the apostles' lifetime. It means that no revea…
Read article →The positive argument of the whole series, brought together
…om for the Bride's preparation in heaven. Pretribulationism does not invent two unrelated comings. It distinguishes stages within the one future coming of Christ because the texts describe different directions, purposes, audiences, and results. Daniel's unfinished programme has a…
Read article →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…ighteousness. To seal up the vision and prophecy. To anoint the most Holy. Christ's first coming is indispensable to their fulfilment. The cross made the only sufficient atonement for iniquity. Nothing in a futurist reading suggests that His sacrifice was incomplete or that a lat…
Read article →What the historical evidence proves—and what it does not
…ting around the beginning of the third century, says that believers remaining at Christ's coming, together with the resurrected dead in Christ, will be "caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air". He describes what Christ prepared for His people as "this ascension into…
Read article →The gathering of the elect, one taken and one left, and Paul's revealed mystery
…n to a pretribulation rapture. Jesus describes Great Tribulation, cosmic disturbance, His coming in the clouds, and a gathering of the elect. The sequence appears plain: "Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her li…
Read article →The event is explicit; the real dispute is its timing
…that living believers will be caught up to Christ when the dead in Christ are raised. The second is when that event occurs in relation to the Tribulation and Christ's public return to the earth. Christians may disagree seriously about the second question. The first should not be…
Read article →The man of sin, the last trumpet, the first resurrection, and the last day
…passages which appear least friendly to it. Four objections deserve particular attention: Second Thessalonians 2 appears to place Antichrist before our gathering. First Corinthians 15 places the resurrection at the "last trump". Revelation 20 calls a post-Tribulation event "the f…
Read article →Divine judgement, the character of God, and the promise of escape
…l response to sin. A Christian may be exposed to the first while being delivered from the second. Revelation's judgements do include human violence and satanic activity, but they unfold within a heavenly proceeding governed by the Lamb. The Lamb opens the seals. Authority is give…
Read article →The question reaches beyond prophecy to the faithfulness of God
…ers more. Jewish people have no separate path of salvation, and Gentile believers are not second-class members of God's household. Every sinner is reconciled to God through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The question is whether this unity in salvation removes the dis…
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