For this is what the sovereign LORD says: How much worse will it be when I send my four terrible judgments–sword, famine, wild animals, and plague–to Jerusalem to kill both people and animals! (Ezek 14:21 NET) Yesterday, on Jimmy DeYoung’s radio show, Prophecy Today, he had pretribulationist Renald Showers on his show for about five […]
Pretribulationism
A Response to “Prophecy Today” and Jimmy DeYoung and Renald Showers
I was informed that pretribulationist Jimmy DeYoung would be talking about Prewrath on his prophecy show Prophecy Today and that he would have Renald Showers as a guest. I wrote DeYoung before the show to tell him that I would be available to go on his show to interact with Showers and himself on prewrath, […]
Do the Twenty Four Elders in Revelation 4:4 “Represent” the Church?
In a circle around the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and seated on those thrones were twenty-four elders. They were dressed in white clothing and had golden crowns on their heads. (Rev 4:4 NET) In the fourth chapter of Revelation, we are introduced to a magnificent scene in the throne room of heaven. John witnesses […]
Jesus and Paul Use the Metaphor of “Birth Pangs” for Opposite Purposes
“All these are but the beginning of the birth pains.” (Matt 24:8) “While people are saying, ‘There is peace and security,’ then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.” (1 Thess 5:3) In an attempt to make the “beginning of birth pangs” in […]
The Olivet Discourse (Matthew 24–25) is for the Church, Not the Jews
Classical pretribulationism minimizes the application of the Olivet Discourse for the church. The motivation for this claim recognizes the implication that the church would encounter Antichrist’s great tribulation. They must then posit a secret rapture that occurs before the events in Matthew 24 because their theology teaches that Christ can come back at any moment […]
A Groundswell for the Prewrath Rapture Position
“I doubt [Marvin Rosenthal] will live long enough to find Pre-Wrath rapture the recognized position…after the first blush of fadism passes, it will likely be forgotten.” —Tim LaHaye, 1998, Rapture Under Attack, p 102 Thirteen years ago Tim LaHaye made that prediction—which dismally failed to come to fruition. The prewrath position continues to have a […]
The Word “Church” in the Book of Revelation
Pretribulationism maintains that since the actual word “church” (ekklēsia) does not appear in chapters 4–21, but is mentioned many times before chapter 4, it is assumed then that the church will be raptured before the events of chapter 4. This is very bad argumentation that is made in popular books, but rejected even by scholarly […]
A Critique of Eric Douma’s Eschatology
Over at the Prewrath Resource Institute’s blog, I am responding to Eric Douma’s pretribulational claims. I am doing a series challenging his teaching on the day of the Lord because it is seriously flawed. I am also responding to him because his arguments represent other pretribulational teachers. I will update the links here until my […]
A Few Responses to Mike Stallard
I want to briefly respond to a few objections that pretribulationist Mike Stallard had made against the prewrath position. I have heard similar objections by others, so I hope my response here will be instructive. On the Celestial Disturbances In 2002 at the Pre-Trib Study Group, Mike Stallard wrote, “An Analysis of the Use […]
The Fourth Seal of Revelation
“(7) Then when the Lamb opened the fourth seal I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, “Come!” (8) So I looked and here came a pale green horse! The name of the one who rode it was Death, and Hades followed right behind. They were given authority over a fourth of the […]
The Early Church Fathers on the Second Coming
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