Darrin expands on a few reasons on the application of the Olivet Discourse. Click here to read it. (Though I differ with his point #2 on the interpretation of Matthew 24:14. I take this prophecy to be a Kingdom judgment announcement upon the ungodly world, which an angel will fulfill (Rev. 14:6-7), not the Church. This is unrelated to the great commission, which does not apply to Matthew 24:14. See this article for further explanation. However, the point against pretribulationism can still be made since Jesus in Matthew 28 is said to be with “you” (i.e. the Church) to the “end of the age,” and the end of the age has not ceased before the events in the Olivet Discourse (Matthew 24:14) therefore the Church age has not come to fruition before the events in the Olivet Discourse.)
The Blog is two years old as of this month. We want to thank all the readers for your faithfulness in visiting us, as well as the feedback. We trust that God has used the content and resources available here for his glory in helping believers learn more about his Return. We certainly have learned of many new prewrathers the past year, a few of their encouraging stories we have posted here.
The blog has gone through some substantive changes in the past two years. The first year was slow but the second year picked up a lot of steam. Our goal was to build up substantive content on the blog–audio, text, resources (and we will continue to do so at measured pace).
In January we are going to add a streaming player to the Radio program. That way you do not have to download the program to listen to it, rather you can just click the “Play” button and listen to it from the blog post itself. We also have a few more irons in the fire for 2008 as far as new features for the blog that we will reveal later.
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Soli Deo Gloria.
The idea that the Lord can return for His Bride at any-moment by their own admission is a core value of pretribulationism. One would think that such an important issue would have an explicit basis in the Scriptures. Let’s examine the seven most often quoted passages that supposedly supports this belief to see whether this is the case.
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“The Bible does not teach an any-moment Return of Christ, but rather it teaches the right-moment Return of Christ.” – Charles Cooper
In the recently begun new series on Prewrath Radio Online, Charles Cooper cogently argued that the fact of Biblical election clearly contradicts the pretribulational doctrine of imminence. If I am not mistaken, this is the first time ever, in audio or print, that this argument has been articulated–from a prewrather, or post-triber. Though some may not see the significance of this argument at first, I am convinced that it is one of the most effective Biblical arguments against imminence–it is an airtight argument that every prewrather can use when discussing imminency with a pretriber.
I have tested it for years on pretribbers and every attempt they throw at it has fallen far short. There is absolutely no wiggle room. And therefore it should be mastered by the prewrather and used with confidence to demonstrate the necessity of the event of the salvation of God’s elect that must take place before the rapture happens.
Indeed, the Bible teaches specific eschatological events that must precede the rapture, but the necessity of the salvation of the elect is so obviously taught in Scripture that it should be cited as an 800-pound gorilla against imminency. In a soon-future post, I will unpack it and explain how to use this argument with pretribbers–it is actually very simple. I will also list all the failed pretrib objections to it and my responses to each one.
If you have not listened to Charles Cooper explicate this argument in the recent program, here you go (I’d suggest sending this audio link to your pretrib friends).
The idea that the Lord can return for His Bride at any-moment is at the heart of pretribulationism. Yet, this theory cannot stand the test of biblical examination. John in Revelation 7:9 saw a number that no man could physically count. This one event proves the absolute impossibility of imminence. The Lord could not return until enough elect individuals were born to fill John’s quota. Listen as I dismantle this position.
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