What Is the Rapture?
April 15th, 2012 | Eschatology | 5 Comments
What Is The Rapture?
The definition of the rapture varies depending on which view one takes when answering the question, what is the rapture? There are three categories of rapture teaching. Each of the views are defined by their relationship to the tribulation, an alleged future event of prophecy.
Pre-tribulation Rapture is defined as a seven year period occurring before the "great tribulation" in spoken of in Matthew 24:21, when saints will miraculously be swept into the heavens. Graphic representations have shown images and movies of people leaving their homes, jobs, automobiles, airplanes and machinery and even their churches while others are ...
Dispensationalism – Was The Church an Accide...
April 7th, 2009 | Dispensationalism | 29 Comments
Dispensationalism: Was the church an accident
for Christ’s failure to establish the kingdom?
The theology that teaches that Christ postponed
the kingdom and yet await its establishment at the
millennium is what’s known as Dispensationalism.
It is a rather recent teaching (past 200 years) in the
area of eschatology (study of last things) which
includes the second coming and its related events.
We believe that Dispensationalism errs by charging God with failure to keep his promise regarding the imminent (from a first century perspective)
establishment of the kingdom.
In that view, the church became a substitute, an interim entity to “pacify” the world until God fulfills his promises to “ethnic” ...
Resurrection in 1 Thessalonians 4: Are We Who Are ...
February 20th, 2009 | Rapture | 2 Comments
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1 Thessalonians 4:13-18, incites emotionally
charged discussions about the resurrection
and the rapture.
Students of John Nelson Darby, credited
with popularizing modern Dispensationalism
cite the text as incontrovertible proof of
the Rapture.
However, these exegetes (scripture
interpreters) violate hermeneutic principles
in their application of the text.
The following demonstrate some of the
errors glossed over by futurists and pre-
tribulation rapture advocates. Resurrection in 1 Thessalonians 4: Are We Who Alive Dead?, addresses the specific audience of the text.
The problem with most interpreters on the Lord's return is that they read themselves versus the audience into the text. We show this
as a faulty premise.
We Who Are AliveAnd Remain
Paul ...