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Four Common ViewsThe Pretribulation Rapture
The Partial Rapture
The Midtribulation RaptureThe Midtribulation Rapture
The Postribulation Rapture
The Pre-Wrath Rapture
Partial Rapture Viewed
Like a continual rapture
Great Tribulation Period
The Partial Rapture View
• Only SOME will be removed.• Only those who are “worthy” are
taken.taken.• Others will be raptured
throughout the Tribulation.• The Tribulation will “purify” the
Christians and they are called “overcomers.”
What passages are used?
Matt 25:1-13
Based on the parable of the ten virgins
What passages are used?
1 Thess 5:6 Therefore let us not sleep, as
Seen as a
requirement in
order to be
raptured
1 Thess 5:6 Therefore let us not sleep, as
do others; but let us watch and be
sober.Again, a
conditional
rapture view.
What passages are used?
• 1 Thessalonians 1:10• 2 Timothy 4:8• 1 Corinthians 15:23• 1 Corinthians 15:23• Philippians 3:11• Hebrews 9:28• Luke 21:36
The Midtribulation Rapture
Adherents to this view believe that the church believe that the church will be raptured at the midpoint of the seven-year Tribulation period.
The Midtribulation Rapture
• Another view similar to this view is know as the Pre-Wrath Rapture.
• This view is only a slightly modified version of the Midtribulation Rapture view.
Midtribulation Rapture Viewed
Taken out after 3
½ Years of Trib.
Great Tribulation Period
What Passages do they use?
2 Tim 3:12 Yea, and all that
will live godly in Christ Jesus Their thinking is that the church is will live godly in Christ Jesus
shall suffer persecution.Their thinking is that the church is
promised tribulation and must
therefore, go through the first 3 ½
years of that period.
What Passages do they use?
1 Cor. 15:52 In a moment, in the
twinkling of an eye, at the last trump:
for the trumpet shall sound, and the
dead shall be raised incorruptible, and dead shall be raised incorruptible, and
we shall be changed.
They believe the
trump of the
angel and Christ
are the same .
no distinction is made between Israel
and the church. Corinth, a local
church, was told of a coming time
when all the believers would be
“changed.”
The Posttribulation Rapture
Its proponents believe that the church will endure Daniel’s 70th
week and will be raptured at the end of the Great Tribulation. end of the Great Tribulation.
They believe that the rapture and the second coming of Christ are the same thing.
The Posttribulation View
• Most posttribulationalists teach that events of the Tribulation are not to be taken literally or futuristically, for the church has futuristically, for the church has always undergone tribulation since its inception and is in the Tribulation now.
The Posttribulation View
• Others teach that the church will go through the Tribulation but are unclear on the sequence and literalness of the events leading up to Christ’s Coming.events leading up to Christ’s Coming.
• They mix literal and allegorical interpretations of the Scripture.
The Post tribulation View
Rapture at the end of the Trib.
Great Tribulation Period
The Pretribulation Rapture
• This view is widely held by Christians.
• The church will be removed from the earth before the seven-year Tribulation of Daniel’s 70th week (Dan 9:24-27).
The Pre tribulation Viewed
“To meet the Lord
in the air…”
Great Tribulation Period
What do Pretribulation Rapturists Believe?
The Rapture is imminent.• It could occur at any moment.• It could occur at any moment.James said, “the coming of the
Lord draweth near (is at hand)….behold, the judge standeth before the door” (Jas. 5:8-9).
What do Pretribulation Rapturists Believe?
The Rapture is imminent.• Paul taught, “that we who are
alive and remain unto the alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not precede them who are asleep” (1 Thess 4:15).
What do Pretribulation Rapturists Believe?
The Rapture and the Second Advent are Separate Events.
• The rapture is in the air to meet • The rapture is in the air to meet the Lord
• The Second Coming is with Christ to come back to the earth.
What do Pretribulation Rapturists Believe?
• A division of time must exist between the Rapture and the Second Coming.
• Believers are in their prepared places • Believers are in their prepared places (John 14: 1-3).
• The Bema Seat Judgment (2 Cor. 5:10).• The Marriage Supper of the Lamb (Rev.
19:7-9).
What do Pretribulation Rapturists Believe?
The church will NOT experience any form of God’s wrath.
• Paul said, “For God hath not • Paul said, “For God hath not appointed us to wrath” (1 Thes 5:9) for Jesus has, “delivered us from the wrath to come” (1 Thes 1:10).
What do Pretribulation Rapturists Believe?
The church will NOT experience any form of God’s wrath.
• To the church, John said God would “keep thee from the hour of would “keep thee from the hour of temptation (testing), which shall come upon all the world” (Rev 3:10).
What do Pretribulation Rapturists Believe?
The Church and Israel are NOT identical.• The church and Israel have two
separate programs.• This is indicated by Daniel 9: 24-27, a • This is indicated by Daniel 9: 24-27, a
key passage giving an overview of the Tribulation.
The Pre tribulation Viewed
The coming of the Lord
COMING OF THE LORD FOR THE SAINTS
1.The.4: 16
The judgment
seat of Christ
The rewards
The marriage
of the lamb
COMING OF THE LORD WITH THE SAINTS
(2.The.1: 7)
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TRIBULATION SAINTS (RAISED)
Verse 1. "Now we request
you, brethren, with regard
to the coming of our Lord
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to the coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ and our
gathering together to
Him,"
Verse 2. "that you not be quickly
shaken from your composure
or be disturbed either by a
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or be disturbed either by a
spirit or a message or a letter
as if from us, to the effect that
the day of the Lord has
come."
Verse 3. "Let no
one in any
way deceive
you, for it will 1. Great
you, for it will
not come
unless the
apostasy
comes first,
1. Great Apostasy
Verse 3. "Let
no one in
any way
deceive
you, for it
and the man
of lawlessness
is revealed,
the son of destruction,"you, for it
will not
come
unless the
apostasy
comes first,
destruction,"
2. Antichrist
1 John 2:18-19, “Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have already heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know that it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they did not really from us, but they did not really belong to us. For I they had belonged to us, they would have remained in us; but their goingshowed that none of them had belonged to us.”
2. Antichrist
Wrath of Antichrist
• Dan. 11:36, “He will be successful until the time of wrath is completed, for what is determined will take place.”
• Rev. 13:7, “He was given power to make• Rev. 13:7, “He was given power to makewar against the saints and to conquer them.”
• Dan 8:10, “It grew until it reached the host of the heavens, and it threw some of the starry host down to the earth and trampled on them.”
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worship, so that he
takes his seat in
the temple of God,
displaying himself
as being God."
Verse 5. "Do you not Verse 5. "Do you not
remember that while I
was still with you, I was
telling you these things?"
Verse 6. "And you know
what restrainshim now, so that in
his time he will be his time he will be
revealed."
Verse 7. "For the
mystery of
lawlessness is
already at work; only
HE who now Verse 3. "Let
no one in
any way
3. RESTRAINER
HE who now
restrains will do
so until HE is
taken out of the
way."
any way
deceive
you, for it
will not
come
unless
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Verse 8. "Then that
lawless one will
be revealed whom
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with the breath of
His mouth and
bring to an end by
the appearance of
His coming;"
Verse 8. Then that lawless one
will be revealed
whom the Lord
will slay with the will slay with the
breath of His mouth and
bring to an end by the
appearance of His coming;
Verse 9. "that is, the one
whose coming is in
accord with the activity of
Verse 9. "that is, the one
whose coming is in
accord with the activity of accord with the activity of
Satan, with all power and
signs and false wonders,"
accord with the activity of
Satan, with all power and
signs and false wonders,"
Verse 11. "For this reason God
will send upon them a deluding
influence so that they will
believe what is false,"
Verse 10. "and with all the
deception of wickedness for
those who perish, because
they did not receive the love
of the truth so as to be of the truth so as to be
saved."