[P8riot]

I came to faith in a very dispensational church in the 70's and like everyone else I knew drank the "rapture kool-aid", but since then through decades of study have realized that the entire premise of dispensationalism is flawed.

Dispy's would have us believe that the church is just a parenthetical period in God's plan, everything depends on that, when in reality God's plan is a continuous covenant by faith in him. The "rapture" concept is defeatist in it's nature in that it doesn't require the believer to persevere because of the belief God won't let believers suffer persecution, when in fact it is during persecution that the church is purified and grows.

[lasereye]

The "rapture" concept is defeatist in it's nature in that it doesn't require the believer to persevere because of the belief God won't let believers suffer persecution, when in fact it is during persecution that the church is purified and grows.

The rapture belief in itself says nothing about whether believers suffer persecution.