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Are all the elect raptured before the Tribulation, according to Calvinists?
Most Reformed/Calvinist churches are Amillennial.1 For Amillennials the "millennium" is a symbol for the entire church age, and there is no single time which we could call the "Great Tribulation". ...
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What resurrection are they talking about? Matthew 22:28
The Sadducees did not believe in the resurrection of the dead, the question was simply a set up.
Even though they did not believe in this, the resurrection they are referring to is the resurrection of ...
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What is the biblical basis for a post-tribulation rapture?
Revelation 1:9
I, John, both your brother and companion in the tribulation and
kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was on the island that is called
Patmos for the word of God and for the ...
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Why are three "Comings" a problem?
Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by ...
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How would you come to a pre-tribulational rapture view from scratch?
Well, I wouldn't, but I quite recently learned how that pre-tribulation rapture view came to be presented in certain Christian circles in the second half of the 19th century, gradually gaining a ...
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Does Revelation 3:10 really confirm the rapture before beast mark?
How could it when the verses are addressed to the congregation of the saints in Philadelphia, almost at the close of the first century A.D? Even if an application is claimed for all generations of ...
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How can it be said that Paul taught a pre-tribulational rapture of the Church given 2 Thessalonians chapter 2?
There are a few interpretations:
The falling away (or rebellion) is the word apostasia (G646). Some say this apostasia, or the apostasy, is the rapture. However, there are some problems with this ...
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Why are three "Comings" a problem?
Three Questions This posting was divided into three questions, which shall be dealt with in order. The solution to this dilemma makes study of eschatology much simpler and more exciting/practical, for ...
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Why are three "Comings" a problem?
The need for three comings presupposes the following:
there will be a future period characterized by great suffering referred to as the Great Tribulation
the primary purpose of the secret preliminary ...
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What did the early church believe about the "rapture"?
Church Fathers on the Rapture
Irenaeus, “Against Heresies,” Book V, Chap. 29:
And therefore, when in the end the Church shall be suddenly caught up from this, it is said, 'There shall be tribulation ...
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What did the early church believe about the "rapture"?
In none of the early church fathers' writings there is proof that they believed in a pre tribulation rapture, the opposite is true.
... And therefore, when in the end the Church shall be suddenly ...
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What did the early church believe about the "rapture"?
The Rapture
The Rapture is a heterodox doctrine stating that faithful Christians will be removed suddenly without notice from the earth prior to a time of ‘tribulation’ preceding the return of Jesus ...
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If Jesus Christ is supposedly part of the trinity how come he didn't even know when the hour would come
This is actually a Trinitarian proof text, often used in debates with modalists. Social Trinitarians would say this proves that the Son is a completely different person from the Father, although He ...
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If Jesus Christ is supposedly part of the trinity how come he didn't even know when the hour would come
TLDR; Jesus is fully God, but decided to become fully human in order to save His people from sin, and to be an example for us. This limited Him, but did not cease to make Him God.
I believe the Bible ...
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Why are three "Comings" a problem?
The New Testament is clear that the first 'coming' was the Son of God being born into this word via the virgin Mary, and he was mainly known during his earthly ministry as "the Son of Man". ...
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Are all the elect raptured before the Tribulation, according to Calvinists?
Many Calvinists reject dispensational premillennialism, so for them your question doesn’t even make sense.
Eschatology and soteriology can often develop independently of one another, so you’re not ...
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Luke 17. Do these two verses speak contrary to a pre-trib rapture?
There are, indeed, scriptures that speak contrary to the fairly modern phraseology of "a pre-tribulation rapture". But it is not the two asked about here. That is because, when Jesus ...
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What evidence is there that Jewish weddings staged a mock kidnapping of the bride?
Given that Judaism does not believe Jesus was the Messiah or that there is going to be a rapture of the Christian Church, then I think it is safe to say that any comparison between what happens at a ...
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Are all the elect raptured before the Tribulation, according to Calvinists?
In response to the two links you made reference to:
Got Questions is not a Calvinistic Protestant denomination. The views expressed in that article about the series of ‘Left Behind’ novels and films ...
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What resurrection are they talking about? Matthew 22:28
One of the basic precepts of Christianity, as well as Judaism, is that there is an eternal portion of the human being which is eternal, and known as the soul. That precept is loosely based on the idea ...
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How would you come to a pre-tribulational rapture view from scratch?
Excellent Question If you read the Bible with no preconceived notions...what kind of reasoning would lead you to believe...? It would be great if everyone who came to the Table of discussion (on any ...
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How would you come to a pre-tribulational rapture view from scratch?
Your question is the story of my life in the last few years. As someone who is post-trib, pre-wrath the majority of teaching in today's church is pre-trib teaching. I have recently asked my pastor ...
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Do pre-tribulational, pre-millenial theologies reconcile with Jehovah's Witnesses
Do pre-tribulational, pre-millennial theologies reconcile with Jehovah's Witnesses?
As far as I can ascertain, the answer to your main question must be “no”. However, there is an element of common ...
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How can it be said that Paul taught a pre-tribulational rapture of the Church given 2 Thessalonians chapter 2?
Support for a Pre-Tribulation rapture: is claimed from scriptures like:
1) 1Th 5:9 "not appointed/ordained/destined to wrath...", which is interpreted to mean "rescued from the tribulations being ...
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What resurrection are they talking about? Matthew 22:28
The Sadducees are not talking about the resurrection of Jesus, or of the general resurrection on Jesus return. The specifics you describe are based on scriptures which were not written at the time the ...
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Matthew 24:15-20, If we can't go back and get our clothes, where are we to go?
The Protestant view is that there was a literal application when the Romans laid siege to Jerusalem, then withdrew unexpectedly. That was the moment to escape and flee to the mountains because when ...
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Rapture according to Mid-Tribulation Theory
Here is more proof:
Rev 12:6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Rev 12:7 ...
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Rapture according to Mid-Tribulation Theory
It is clear to me that the Rapture will be Mid-Trib.
Rev. 10:11 says:
And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings. (emphasis added)
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Rapture according to Mid-Tribulation Theory
Mid Tribulation teaches the rapture will happen 3 1/2 years into the Tribulation, and for those who are not raptured, they are here for the rest of the 3 1/2 years of the Tribulation. Once all 7 years ...
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What resurrection are they talking about? Matthew 22:28
There is only one resurrection where both the righteous and wicked will rise and be judged. (See Dan. 12:2) Paul expands on the resurrection and what to expect, but from my reading the Bible, there is ...
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