My FRiend, you are so off the track. Anyway, when I see you on our way up to meet the Lord, which LAUNCHES Daniel’s 70th week, the 7-year tribulation, don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Well, I’d be happy to be wrong, but I’ve shared these things, which are straight from scripture, for many years. And those who disagree never seem to get around to identifying the specific place where it is in error. Rather, it is merely just wrong because it disagrees with their foregone conclusion.
This is problematic because it is setting up many people who are superficially “Christian” to “fall away” when the expected rapture does not come in time and they find they are facing the Antichrist.
“when I see you on our way up to meet the Lord, which LAUNCHES Daniel’s 70th week, the 7-year tribulation, don’t say I didn’t warn you.”
I’ll gladly say you were right, but what will you say if it is otherwise? I’m not interested in telling anyone, “I told you so.” I’m interested in people being prepared to face what believers have always had to face. I’m interested in helping rescue people from an eschatology that aligns with the false Gospel of prosperity. You know, “your best life now” and God wanting His people to always be healthy, wealthy, and well-liked? The pre-trib rapture theory is appealing in the west, where we have not seen any wide, out-in-the-open persecution in our lifetimes. The idea that the Lord takes us all away before it gets very bad is enticing.
Can you demonstrate from scripture where any of what I said is incorrect? Can you support the rapture “launching Daniel’s 70th week” from scripture? Do you have explanations for the many passages that do not fit this paradigm? For so much at stake I find many people who adamantly affirm the pre-trib view with a complete inability to defend it from scripture. I’ve read countless articles and books, and watch many hours of videos, and listened to many sermons, with the hope that pre-trib might be justified by scripture. But I find that, while the paradigm of the pre-trib rapture sounds great, it falls apart when scrutinizing it in the light of the pages of the Bible.
In contrast, the pre-wrath rapture can be found through systematic study of the scripture. Just look at all of the related passages on Christ’s return and the Day of the Lord.