Pretribulation Rapture

Kenneth Harrower

Mike Srallard

The Doctrine of End Times

11-1-2024

A Defence of Pretribulation Rapture

The Rapture will happen. There are five main thoughts of when the rapture will happen. The Bible gives many descriptions of what will happen after the rapture , but never tells us out right “On this date at this time I am coming for these people”. God tells Christians about the End Times so we can tell others about what God will save them from. Christian are the Bride Of Jesus, and God is the father Of Jesus. God the Father is the one who sets the time for Jesus to come and bring His bride to the Fathers house. So the Rapture will happen when God tells Jesus to Go get your Bride. The Bible states this will be before the wrath of God on the unredeemed. This would be the Tribulation. There for the rapture is before the tribulation.

The word “rapture” is derived from the Latin translation of 1 Thessalonians 4:17. English translations translate the key word in that verse with “caught up” or “snatched up.” Jesus said in Matthew 24:36 But of that day and hour knoweth no one, not even the angels of heaven, neither the Son, but the Father only. In Matthew 24:39 and they knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall be the coming of the Son of man. These passages show the imminence of the rapture. Imminence . A term usually referring to the possibility of Christ’s second coming occurring at any moment. The imminence of Christ’s return suggests that no established intervening events need to take place before his return, thus ruling out all predictions that would set the time or date of his coming. Some contemporary theologians reinterpret imminence to mean that Christ’s return is near in the sense that it is the next major event in God’s timetable for history.(Stanley 64) This means that the signs we are looking for are for something else. The next event after the rapture is the Tribulation. As the definition of Imminence said Christ can come at any time like a thief in the night which Christ used as an example to His disciples in Matthew 24:43.

Grenz, Stanley, et al. Pocket Dictionary of Theological Terms. InterVarsity Press, 1999, p. 64.

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