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PROOFS FOR PRETRIBULATION RAPTURE
THEOLOGY
By Don Koenig
http://www.thepropheticyears.com/reasons/rapture.htm 26jul2011
Does the Bible teach that the Church will be
supernaturally removed (rapture)? Will the Church escape the tribulation? Is the rapture pretribulation pre-wrath,
or post tribulation?
The best way to
find out the truth is to correctly interpret God's word. In some cases this is easier said than done. Finding and
correlating deep truths in some scriptures can be like mining for gold. It is hard work but it sure is worthwhile
when you sift out a few nuggets. I expect God wanted it that way so that some things would be hidden from the
adversary. The parables are prime examples of how Jesus gave truth to the children of the promise but the sons of
darkness could not understand what He was talking about. Some of God's truths take scholarship and enlightenment by
the Holy Spirit. Sometimes there may be more than one level of truth in a passage with insights that are revealed
in time by the Holy Spirit as He deems appropriate. This is apparently the case with the truth about the rapture of
the faithful Church.
Some teachers are blind about the
rapture and Bible prophecy.
There are many
theologians in some of the denominations who do not see that we are in the prophetic years because they allegorize
or spiritualize all scripture dealing with the end times and the restoration of Israel. Unless there is clear
indication for allegory, even common sense dictates that scripture writings should be taken in a literal sense. By
allegorizing prophetic scripture these theologians can make it say just about anything they want. By applying the
promises of God for Israel to the Church, they can do away with any literal fulfillment on earth. Scholars such as
these really need to review why it is that they use human rationalization
to distort the plain teaching of God's word.
I believe they do
this either in ignorance due to their seminary training or because they do not wish to believe what God said about
a literal fulfillment that includes a final world-wide judgment and thousand-year reign of Christ on earth from
Jerusalem. They do not understand that the body of Jesus rose very early on the third day and that the body of
Christ (the Church) will also rise very early on her third day - a day with the Lord is as a thousand years (2 Pe
3:8).
Liberty taking with the literal interpretation of prophetic scriptures in the past
was not as critical a problem to the Church as it is today. In the past the Church in general had less knowledge of
the scriptures and the Church was not near the prophetic years. Today, there is widespread access of scripture in
the Church, so we do not have that excuse. In addition, there is more
danger in applying scriptures meant for Israel to the Church. The theology that the Jews killed Christ and that God
has cursed the descendants of Israel and given her promises to the Christian Church in recent times opened the door
for the Jewish holocaust under Hitler. Those in replacement theology today may be opening a new door for the
predicted worldwide holocaust against the Jews under the Beast Antichrist.
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