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Clear searchA response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation
Is the Pretribulation Rapture Without Biblical Basis? A response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation In an article published by the Christian Research Institut…
Read article →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 objectio…
Read article →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
Daniel's Seventieth Week and the New Testament Tribulation Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem The seven-year Tribulation is sometimes dismissed as an interval invented to make a prophetic cha…
Read article →What the historical evidence proves—and what it does not
Did Darby Invent the Pretribulation Rapture? What the historical evidence proves—and what it does not The historical objection is often stated in absolute terms: no Christian taught the rapture before John Nelson D…
Read article →The gathering of the elect, one taken and one left, and Paul's revealed mystery
Does Matthew 24 Place the Rapture after the Tribulation? The gathering of the elect, one taken and one left, and Paul's revealed mystery Matthew 24 contains the most direct Gospel objection to a pretribulation rapture. Jesus describes…
Read article →Divine judgement, the character of God, and the promise of escape
Is the Church Appointed to the Tribulation's Wrath? Divine judgement, the character of God, and the promise of escape The claim that the Church is not appointed to wrath is sometimes answered too quickly. Christians plain…
Read article →The positive argument of the whole series, brought together
Why the Cumulative Case Points to a Pretribulation Rapture The positive argument of the whole series, brought together The case for a pretribulation rapture should not rest upon one disputed word, one prophetic chart, or one pass…
Read article →Earth-dwellers, heaven-dwellers, and the literary structure of the Apocalypse
…estimony of Scripture, sealed servants, angelic proclamation, and prophetic witnesses. Pretribulationists must not use "Tribulation saints" as a label which makes every difficulty disappear. The distinction needs textual support. Revelation supplies it through the restored prophe…
Read article →A forensic reading of Christ's Olivet Discourse
…ect of Matthew 24? A forensic reading of Christ's Olivet Discourse "Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light... And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his…
Read article →Abraham, Lot, divine wrath, and a pattern that must be used carefully
…destroying judgement did not fall until he had been brought out. Does this establish a pretribulation rapture by itself? No. It supplies a meaningful biblical pattern, but patterns must support clear teaching rather than replace it. Abraham's question concerns God's justice Genes…
Read article →Michael Brown, 2 Thessalonians 1, and the public vindication of the saints
…onians 1, and the public vindication of the saints In his presentation Why I Reject a Pre-tribulation Rapture, Michael Brown identifies 2 Thessalonians 1:5–10 as a decisive passage. Paul is writing to Christians enduring persecution. He promises them rest when the Lord Jesus is r…
Read article →Why a loaded label does not settle the question
…lical.” The phrase is repeated so often that it can sound like an argument. It is not. Pretribulationists do not claim that Christ descends silently, that believers disappear without an event, or that nothing extraordinary occurs. Paul describes the Lord descending “with a shout,…
Read article →Governmental restraint, the final ten kings, and the preparation of the temple
…st making war upon the Church, so his testimony cannot be treated as endorsement of my pretribulational sequence. Chrysostom’s agreement about Rome likewise establishes no agreement about a future millennium. Their importance here is their identification of a Roman restraint and…
Read article →Responding to five common criticisms without defending what Scripture does not require
…lism; he did not create every component from nothing. Our article Did Darby Invent the Pretribulation Rapture? examines the narrower historical claim in detail. History can correct an inaccurate origin story, but Scripture must decide the doctrine. The proper question is not “Who…
Read article →Why apantēsis does not settle the timing of the rapture
…does not settle the timing of the rapture One of the most sophisticated objections to pretribulationism centres on a single Greek noun. Paul says that living believers will be caught up with the resurrected dead "to meet the Lord in the air" (1 Thessalonians 4:17). The word tran…
Read article →The event is explicit; the real dispute is its timing
…en 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 controversial. Paul describes the event directly. "F…
Read article →History, heresy, and the temptation of private Christianity
…ordinary Christians as hopelessly asleep. Complexity is not the problem; neither is a pretribulational rapture. The problem is the conversion of biblical hope into secret-key psychology, sensational novelty, and superiority. Escape language also requires correction. The blessed…
Read article →Signs, expectancy, and the event the Church is told to await
…"Do not be concerned about meeting Christ until the required signs make it possible." Pretribulationism preserves that force. Christ may gather His Church before Daniel's week begins. The signs belong to His subsequent public manifestation and the Day-of-the-Lord programme, not…
Read article →The peace Christ gives in a troubled world
…out trouble Later that same evening Jesus told His disciples: "In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." —John 16:33 He did not say, “I have overcome the world; therefore you will never encounter tribulation.” His victory does not m…
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