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Thank you for your informed post. While I am a protestant “fundamentalist” pre-mil Christian, I found what you said very insightful. I have come to believe that the second coming will follow the rapture and a 7 year tribulation. I don't consider the Rapture to be a return of Christ, but a calling up of the elect TO Christ. For me there is a distinction between Him gathering the elect up in the air, and him returning to earth to physically take the throne. I don't have the time for a lengthy response, but I just wanted to set out my thoughts on that particular observation of the “rapture doctrine”.

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Thanks for the charitable post. Like I said, I tried to give a fair assessment to the Pre-Millenial view, based on what I have been told by those who subscribe to it and based on Catholic speakers who have examined it and given the Catholic response, which I tried to to based on the Official Teaching of the Catholic Church.

Thanks again, God Bless