Charles Cooper was recently interviewed on a radio program and asked to explain the Prewrath Rapture position, as well as taking questions about his recent book Fight, Flight, or Faith: How to Survive the Great Tribulation. There are a total of four segments to the interview. Click here to listen.
Today I was listening to a lecture by a well known Amillennial author and he made the same error that I hear so many times by Amillennialists. He said that the first event of the millennium is the binding of Satan which happened at Christ’s First Coming. This can be found, he said, in the millennial passage in Revelation chapter 20 starting at verse 1 through 6.
This is in error. The literary unit of the passage militates against this interpretation because the event of the binding of Satan is only part of a larger passage which begins back in Revelation 19:11 and includes the destiny of the “three enemies of God” when Christ comes back — the Beast, False prophet, and then the Dragon, Satan. The timing of the destiny of Satan should not be disconnected from the other two enemies of God — but this point is frequently ignored by Amillennialists.
For my discussion on the context read my article here. This will equip you to correct the Amillennialist next time they want to dive right in the middle of this passage without giving consideration of the preceding context. Building brick walls with chapter breaks is not practicing sound exegesis.
Ton Verdam a Dutch Prewrath pastor in the Netherlands has opened up a Prewrath website in the Dutch language here. He has translated some of the articles found on this blog in the Dutch language, and he intends to translate and post more content on his website. It is encouraging to see Prewrath embraced more and more internationally.
Please pray for Ton and his church that God will spread the truth of his Son’s Coming in the Netherlands.
At the 2008 Prewrath Conference in Orlando, Cooper exhorts the believer not to read so much of the news back into Biblical prophecy. Then he explains three conditions that should exist before Christ’s Return.
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At the 2008 Prewrath Conference in Orlando, Charles Cooper explicated Matthew’s purpose in his account of the Olivet Discourse found in Matthew 24, distinguishing it from Mark and Luke’s account and purpose.
Matthew 24 is applicable to the Church, contra Preterism and Pretribulationism. Preterists commit a fundamental fallacy of assuming that the question and purpose in Mark and Luke’s version of the Olivet Discourse is the same as that in Matthew’s, thus flattening the respective purposes for each. But Matthew is not concerned with the question asked in Mark and Luke’s account, but rather he takes the teaching of Jesus and expands on it to serve a larger (eschatological) purpose — this important point is repeatedly missed by preterists. With any discussion or debate with a preterist, this point is fundamental and primary to all other subsequent discussions.
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