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WE STARTED OUT BELIEVING IN A 7 YR PRE TRIBULATION RAPTURE
BUT FOUND OVER TIME AROUND 2006 THAT THE BIBLE DOES NOT SHARE A 
BIBLE VERSE WHATSOEVER INDICATING A 7 YR PRE TRIBULATION RAPTURE

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While Yahusha/JESUS was alive, He prayed to His Father: "I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.  John 17:15 (KJV)

Yahusha/JESUS gave signs of what must happen before His Return:  "Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:"  Matt. 24:29 (KJV)


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Re: Iran's Judgment, Israel's Revival

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Defining God's Wrath

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Defining God's Wrath

As end-times prophecy is rapidly being fulfilled, many Christians are clinging to “the blessed hope,” the rapture of the Church. For God has promised, “we are not destined for wrath, but to salvation through our Lord, Jesus Christ.” (1 Thess. 5:9). For this reason, many are teaching that the rapture of the Church will occur before any of God's end-times judgments (described in Revelation as the seven seals, the seven trumpets, and the seven bowls) occur.

In this discussion, there is one important factor that most people overlook. There is difference between judgment and wrath. According to Webster's Ninth Collegiate Dictionary, judgment in this context is defined as “a divine sentence or decision; a calamity held to be sent by God.” Wrath, on the other hand, is defined as “strong, vengeful anger or indignation; retributory punishment for an offense or a crime.” Big difference.

A Biblical Definition

In determining the timing of the rapture, it is important, then, to determine the start of God's wrath. Could the seals, the trumpets, or the bowls also be God's wrath? Certainly. The question is: Are they?

There are 13 uses of the word “wrath” in Revelation, each using the Greek words orge or thumos. From the beginning of Revelation until the opening of the sixth seal, the word “wrath” is absent. It is not used in the first seal, the rise of the Antichrist; the second seal, the Antichrist's waging of world war; the third seal, the worldwide famine; the fourth seal, widespread death on the earth; or even the fifth seal, the cry of the martyrs.

The first time the word “wrath” is used is in Rev. 6:17, after the opening of the sixth seal: “And the [mighty men of the earth] hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains and said to the mountains and rocks, 'Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! For the great day of His wrath has come'” (Rev. 6:14–17).

In the Greek, the language in which the book of Revelation was written, this phrase “has come” can have two meanings. It can mean an event that has already transpired (and therefore is an event that the speaker is presently experiencing), or it can refer to an event that is imminent but has not yet arrived.

If, in this case, it means that God's wrath has arrived, this lends support to the contention that the seal judgments, which are the first judgments poured out by God, are His wrath. Therefore, the rapture must occur before the seal judgments begin. If, on the other hand, the phrase “God's wrath has come” means that His wrath is imminent but not yet arrived, the rapture does not have to occur until after the seal judgments are complete.






The Day of the Lord

Is there some way to determine which definition is correct? God's Word does not leave room for doubt.

All conservative Bible scholars agree that God's wrath is poured out during a time called “the Day of the Lord.” Isaiah put it this way: “Wail, for the Day of the Lord is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty. Therefore all hands will be limp, every man's heart will melt, and they will be afraid. Pangs and sorrows will take hold of them; they will be in pain as a woman in childbirth; they will be amazed at one another; their faces will be like flames. Behold, the Day of the Lord comes, cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate; and He will destroy its sinners from it.”

Because we know that God's wrath is contained within the Day of the Lord, if we can determine when the Day of the Lord begins, we can identify the earliest starting point for God's wrath, as well. Joel fills in this final, important detail: “The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible Day of the Lord” (Joel 2:31).

When does the sun turn dark and the moon into blood? The Bible couldn't make it more clear. This occurs as part of the sixth seal: “I looked when He opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood. And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree drops its late figs when it is shaken by a mighty wind” (Rev. 6:12-13).

The Day of the Lord — and therefore God's wrath — begins with the opening of the sixth seal.

The implications for believers are profound. Many are teaching that the rapture must be pretribulational because God's wrath starts with the opening of the seal judgments. If this is not the case, then the rapture does not have to occur until after the seals have begun (which is, in fact, what the Bible teaches). This means that the Church will enter the time of the greatest natural and spiritual disasters in history. Believers will have to face the Antichrist. They will have to make a decision between possible martyrdom and the taking of the mark. Therefore, their level of spiritual preparation must be profound, as well.

Are you ready? It's one thing to say that you are ready. But what happens when you start losing the security of your food, your clothing, and your shelter? What happens when the earthquakes are tearing your neighborhood asunder and just practicing your faith can, and will, get you killed? Spiritual preparation suddenly takes on new meaning.

Re: Iran's Judgment, Israel's Revival

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Why Do People Believe Pretrib?

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Why Do People Believe Pretrib?

I recently was asked a question by someone on the verge of fully embracing the prewrath rapture position. She just had one reservation. She writes:

The biggest doubt I have about the prewrath position is that its not widely accepted by true believers. When I simply read what Jesus and Paul and John say the message is obvious. Basically, in the world we will have tribulation (and as James says, "to count it all joy") and in the last days we can also expect tribulation.

What baffles me is when Christians, like my beloved pastor, whole-heartedly believe in a pre-trib rapture and all the baggage that goes with it. My pastor clearly loves the Lord and preaches the gospel of salvation every Sunday. He is devoted to the Word, yet misses this and believes the LaHaye/Lindsey stuff. How is it that anyone who loves Jesus can be missing this truth?

Honestly, this is a great frustration to me, as well. The answer has to do with three things:

1) The history of the development of the rapture positions, whose disfunctional growth created a fertile ground for the pretribulation view (see below).

2) The fact that, while in seminary, pastors-to-be have lots to study, from church growth to learning Greek, so the rapture is one of a seemingly infinite number of things to learn about. It's easy to overlook the inconsistencies in one view in the deluge of other information. Then, once they graduate and get their own churches, they become involved in the day-to-day affairs of their churches and it slips away unless they are somehow directly confronted with it.

3) The consequences of changing their view in a Christendom dominated by pretribulationism that severely persecutes anyone who defects (also see below). We had one formerly pretrib pastor turned prewrather in our Internet prewrath discussion group (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/prewrathonly) for awhile who agonized over whether or not to sign a doctrinal statement at his church that included a pretrib stand on the rapture. Apparently, they had to renew their signatures every year or so and, in the interim, he'd changed his view. Signing it would have required that he lie and not signing would have meant losing his pastorate in the church. Don't know what ultimately happened there, but there have been many, including Marvin Rosenthal who coined the phrase "prewrath" with his PreWrath Rapture of thChurch, who were forced to leave prominent positions when they changed their view. These pastors, ministry leaders, and professors are concerned about their professional lives — they can (and do) lose them.

Here is a condensed version of my chapter "Where Does Pretrib Come From?" from Before God’s Wrath: The Bible's Answer to the Timing of the Rapture that should help in answering point #1:

Where Does Pretrib Come From?

Where do people get the idea that there will be a pretribulation rapture? Despite the widespread misconception that the pretribulation view was held by the early church, pretribulationism is a modern interpretation. Although there has been much speculation about the influence of the visions of a young Scottish girl named Margaret Macdonald, the development of the pretribulation rapture is generally attributed to John Darby of the Plymouth Brethren, who formalized the theory around 1830.

Prior to this time, the return of Christ was seen as a singular event. Jesus would return to earth once, to rapture His Church, to redeem lost Israel, and to judge the wicked and rebellious world, and this was seen either as a midtribulational or posttribulational event. Darby was the first to formally theorize that Jesus would return in two stages: first in spiritual form to rapture the Church, then in bodily form seven years later to judge the world. This allowed Jesus to return triumphantly at Armageddon while keeping the Church out of the 70th Week.

Classic Bible scholars, including John Wesley, Charles Spurgeon, Matthew Henry, John Knox, John Hus, John Calvin, Isaac Newton, John Wycliffe, and John Bunyan, among others, did not hold to a pretribulation rapture view.

A Little History

How did Darby's unusual interpretation of the scriptures win such widespread acceptance? In order to understand this, it is necessary to look at some of the issues surrounding the biblical scholarship of the time.

The Book of Revelation was not written until about 90 A.D. Thus, in the early church, any budding end-times theology would have arisen from the gospels and epistles. It is only John's detailed description of the seal, trumpet, and bowl judgments—written more than three decades later—that allows readers to place Jesus' coming in the timeline of 70th Week events. When one considers only the gospels and epistles, a posttribulational rapture is the most reasonable interpretation, and indeed, the writings of the earliest church fathers indicate that the infant church was posttribulational. By the time Revelation began to circulate, clarifying the fine points of prophetic timing, the first century church was in the midst of dire persecution, and as John Walvoord has pointed out, such studies took a back seat to the very real tribulations of the day.


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