It has been my observation over the years as well as current days, that false prognosticators have a favorite line they use to hedge their predictions: “I am not date setting, I am just providing the data.” Hal Lindsey has used this line when his prediction of the Second Coming of Christ in 1988 did not come to fruition. Many others have used this line. And there are some today who are doing that for a prediction of the Second Coming in 3-5 years.
It is sober that some actually have the chutzpah to think they can appeal before a holy God one day on this prophetic loophole.
After about a year of intense study on the timing of the Rapture, I believe the Prewrath position to be the most biblically defensible of all the primary rapture views that have been articulated (Pre-Trib, Mid-Trib, Pre-Wrath, and Post-Trib)….Speaking as someone who loosely held to a Pre-Trib position up until about a year ago, the Prewrath understanding has really jolted me out of a state of indifference to Bible prophecy….
I don’t know what position Tom Schreiner holds on the rapture. My guess is that he is post-trib, but I could be mistaken. And I do not know if he has actually considered the Prewrath position.
I want to qualify a couple of statements he makes:
He states in this sermon that the timing of the rapture is not clear in Scripture. Of course, we would disagree with him since we believe that the Bible is very clear that the Church will encounter the Antichrist’s Great Tribulation and will then be raptured followed by the Day of the Lord’s wrath upon the ungodly of this world.
One other element that I would disagree with him on is that he believes that when Satan is thrown to the earth with wrath in Revelation 12 Schreiner thinks that happened at Christ’s First Coming at the cross. I believe that it happens at the midpoint of the seven year period when Michael the Restrainer is removed and the Great Tribulation begins. Also, unfortunately, he spiritualizes the mark of the beast. But historical premillenialists tend to be inconsistent in certain areas such as this. You just have to filter the good from the bad.
Nevertheless, Schreiner does an excellent job in exegeting Revelation 20.
Here is the audio sermon.
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Biblical Calenders, 2 Thessalonians 2, and Danites
This is a session from the 2009 2nd Annual Prewrath Conference in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Charles Cooper explicates Biblical Ancient Calenders such as the Egyptian, Jewish, and Western calenders as it pertains to prophetic chronology. He also expounds on 2 Thessalonians 2, as well as Danites returning to Israel recently!
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This is Q&A and Cooper’s closing statement at an eschatology forum last October in O’Fallon Missouri.
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