The church is not mentioned again after Chapter 3 in Revelation. “Christianity Today”, is not so Christian in their worldview and is a lousy source.
Pre-trib is Truth.
More UNHISTORICAL, UNBIBLICAL, RUBBERIZED BLATHER
FROM THE IRRATIONAL, REPLACEMENTARIANS et al,
I see.
What an UNsurprise.
“Since the 1970’s stunning new data has been surfacing about the pretribulation rapture’s long-covered-up beginnings in the 1800’s.”
wrong for so many reasons, but let’s assume it completely started in the 1800’s or even 1900’s.
For me, the issue is simply whether something is true, based on the Word of God. Is it there? Not how long people have recognized it was there.
I find a pretribulation meeting with Christ and “those of us who are alive and remain” in Thessalonians. Good enough for me. I wasn’t alive anytime before the 1900’s anyway...
The Reformation did a good job recovering the Gospel. It couldn’t do everything at once - nor did it.
In my experience, it is the wackos who deny the Church and claim it is simply Israel that dredge up this kind of nonsense article. They will not even admit to the New Testament being written to instruct the Church.
But, to each their own. I don’t want to invest my life digging through their trash to try to correct them. And anyway, they are too busy trying to carry out Christian Reconstructionism (see Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Reconstructionism) and stone adulterers with Gary North to accept feedback.
I wish them well.
ampu
You can most certainly believe however you please about the subject of end-times. The most important issue is, however, what do you believe about getting into heaven? Is salvation by grace through faith in the sacrificial payment of Jesus Christ on the cross? Is it by faith plus good works or can you be saved purely by earning your way there? That's the "meat", all else becomes gravy besides this most important doctrine.
Scripture says one day "we will know even as we are known". The time for arguments will be past and will probably even seem silly.
The title needed fixing :)
Ezekiel 13 whole chapter.