Thursology

In our series on the timing of the Rapture, we've now come to the Mid-Trib View. Proponents of this view believe that the Revelation 11 event...where the Two Witnesses are resurrected and caught up into heaven...is a picture of Christ coming for the Church...exactly halfway through the 7-Year Tribulation. In this session, Dr. Dan unpacks the strengths and weaknesses of the Mid-Tribulational Rapture View.

We've seen that the Pre-Trib View teaches that the Church will be removed before the Tribulation, allowing for the Last Seven Years to unfold for Israel. But those who believe that God is done with Israel (Replacement Theology)...and don't believe that the Israel will be the focus of the Tribulation...are actually making a grave theological error that actually has the implication of risking...not just eschatology...but the entire basis for our salvation as well.

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We've seen that the Pre-Trib View teaches that the Church will be removed before the Tribulation, allowing for the Last Seven Years to unfold for Israel. But those who believe that God is done with Israel (Replacement Theology)...and don't believe that the Israel will be the focus of the Tribulation...are actually making a grave theological error that actually has the implication of risking...not just eschatology...but the entire basis for our salvation as well.

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The Pre-Trib view does a good job of integrating the centuries of the Gap between the 69th and 70th "weeks" of Daniel...and the fundamental biblical Covenants.  The integration precisely and fully provides for the fulfillment of both the Old and New Testament Covenants and...according the the Pre-Trib advocates...marvelously resolves many theological issues that have been controversial for many centuries.

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A biblical “mystery” is an event or concept that appears in the New Testament…but was not anticipated by the Old Testament. And there are surprisingly few of them (only 12 or 13). In tonight's teaching, we'll find that the Mysterious Gap between Daniel's 69th and 70th "weeks" uncovers one of the most surprising of all biblical mysteries. And...we'll see that the unpacking of this mystery says something about human destiny...and free will.

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This week we deal with the 5th Strength of Pre-Trib Rapture View: This view squares perfectly with the Mysterious Gap between Daniel's 69th and 70th groups of seven years.

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We continue to look at the Pre-Trib Rapture Timing and the arguments made by the proponents of this view. Tonight's teaching uncovers that Revelation chapters 2 & 3 are all about the Church...but then it vanishes for the rest of The Revelation...and Israel is prominent throughout the Tribulation.

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In this series on the biblical strengths and weakness of the 3 classic Rapture views...we continue to look at the Pre-Trib Rapture Timing and the arguments made by the proponents of this view.  And tonight's teaching leads us to learn what the Scripture says about an event that most believers will be very surprised about..."The Judgment Seat of Christ."

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The Pre-Trib Rapture view believes that, before the beginning of the 7-year Tribulation, Christ will return for His Church, resurrect dead believers, transform the bodies of His living followers into immortal bodies, and catch us away to meet Him in the air. This will leave everyone else behind to live through the cataclysmic Tribulation, with its judgments and global disasters, and to face the horrifying Mark-of-the-Beast campaign where everyone has to decide whether they will worship the Antichrist. However, the Mid-Trib view believes the Church will go through the first half of the Tribulation...and the Post-Trib view teaches that the Church will go through the entire 7 years with everyone else.  We now begin looking at the strengths and weaknesses of each of the Rapture views.

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After the preparation we’ve done in the last 3 weeks…we’re ready to study the three Rapture Timing Views that have survived the test of time in the Church. These views are believed by 100s of millions of followers of Christ around the world.  We’ll see what the proponents of the Pre-Trib, the Mid-Trib, and the Post-Trib Rapture views teach about when Christ will catch His Bride up into the air for the Great Reunion with our Coming King.  And then we’ll go through the biblical support…and the biblical challenges…for each of these views.

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