What is lost on you as is lost on all other Catholics is that Ephraim knew the bible where you guys don't...The major point that your Catholic critics point out is that Ephraim reminds us and especially you that 'believers' will die during the Tribulation...So your Catholic critics take this to mean that Ephraim couldn't possibly be referring to a pre-Trib Rapture since the tribulation is in full swing when these 'believers' die...
What we know as Christians and bible believers is that Ephraim is exactly right...After the Rapture at some point will be the Tribulation...And after the Rapture and before the Tribulation many will be turning to God, after they realize the 'church' is gone...And after the Tribulation starts many more will be turning to God...
The fate of those believers will be to die...They will starve to the point of eating their kids...They will be dismembered...They will be beheaded...They will be run out of their homes and if their flight is in the winter, many will freeze to death for lack of shelter...Their friends and even relatives will turn them in to the Catholic, One World Church to face their fate...
We know that...Ephraim knew that...But after all these Centuries, you guys still don't know that...So yes, the Christians back in Ephraim's time knew of the pre-Trib rapture...
What's interesting is that the claim is Ephraim's original manuscripts don't exist...But his understanding of the Rapture was so important that there were copies made in different languages...And thus became widespread...So when your Church got the original they destroyed it like they did to so many other Christian documents back then but they didn't locate and destroy all of the translations of that document...
So yes, the early church, or parts of it knew of the pr-Trib Rapture...
Yes, Brother, The Blessed Hope has been part of Christ ianity from the beginning, first articulated right there in John 14:1-4, by none other than Jesus.You have eyes to see and ears to hear. The thread poster lacks those spiritual characteristics, and it shows with his obsession. The carnal mind cannot discern things of the spirit.
Ephraim may have, however the tract is called “Pseudo “ ephraim for a reason.
You don’t believe in the Trinity, do you?