ENDTIME BIBLE PROPHECY

 POST-TRIBULATION RAPTURE

 

Main points:

The rapture will occur at the end of the Tribulation Period
The rapture will occur after the persecutions of the Antichrist
The rapture will occur after the wrath of God falls upon the earth and its people.
Only a few Christians will remain when the rapture occurs at the second coming as Christ returns at Armaggeddon.

Main Criticisms:

The timing of the rapture is too predictable
We are promised that we will saved from God's wrath

Supporting Bible Scriptures

1) The elect will be persecuted

Matthew 24:9-13 9Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. 10And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. 11And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. 12And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. 13But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

Opposing Bible Scriptures

1) God promised that we would not have to undergo his Wrath upon the Earth

Luke 21:34-36 34And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. 35For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.

Romans 5:8-9 8But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 9Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.

1 Thessalonians 1:10 And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, [even] Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.

Revelation 3:10-11 10Because you have kept the word of my perseverance, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, that hour which is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell upon the earth. 11I am coming quickly; hold fast what you have, in order that no one take your crown.

  • The Lord will keep his people and church from going through the Tribulation which is to come upon the world.

2 Thessalonians 2:9-10 9For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10who died for us, that whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him.

  • God has not destined us for wrath!

2) The date and time of Christ's return is not known.

Matthew 24:37-39 37"For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah. 38"For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, 39and they did not understand until the flood came and took them all away; so will the coming of the Son of Man be.

  • The Son of Man will return to the earth when people are going through life as always. If a peace agreement between the Antichrist and Israel was signed, I guarantee that multitudes of Christians would be counting down the days to the end. No surprise if Christ is coming at the midpoint or end of the tribulation.

Matthew 25:13 Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the son of man is coming.

1 Thessalonians 5:2-3 2For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. 3For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

  • With the other interpretations of the rapture a person could predict Jesus' return.

3) Long period in heaven before returning with Christ at Armageddon

  • The idea of being raptured and then instantly returning to earth to be with Christ in his conquering of the Beast and the armies of the world seems implausable to me. The readings seem to indicate that we will be in heaven with Christ for a longer period of time.
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