Robert Fisher writes,
While serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1952, myself and others attended Lowry AFB at Denver Colorado for advanced electronics training. While there I joined a Southern Baptist church and came to know the Lord Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Savior. Shortly thereafter I was baptized and also became a student of the bible, including both bible prophecy and also pseudo-Christian cults.
Upon my eventual return to Canada I became associated with the Plymouth Brethren movement and joined an assembly of believers. On leaving the air force I attended the Toronto Bible College a non-denominational school, studying English Bible, Church History, Cults, Apologetics and Eschatology, together with various other related subjects. I was indoctrinated into “pre-tribulationism” by studying the text of “Systematic Theology” by Louis Sperry Schaeffer. This was further augmented by constantly having the “pre-trib” view preached at many, many meetings of the “brethren.” As an avid student of the prophetic word I purchased most of the then current literature on the subject, and was quite content to accept what I had been taught and instructed.
Then about forty years later in 1990 came a new book by Marvin Rosenthal, “The Pre-wrath Rapture of the Church” Since my knowledge of the subject matter was indeed current, this new view as told by Marv was a shocker to say the very least. I was completely intrigued and impressed by his forthright presentation of the facts, backing everything he observed with adequate unstrained scripture to support his viewpoint.
My Christian brethren immediately dismissed this “new” viewpoint with disdain, and were completely unwilling to give it due consideration, They were quite close-minded over the entire thing, refusing to give any sort of scriptural defense to their “pre-trib” position which they claimed was indisputable. This of course sent me right back to studying Marv’s book for a second, third and fourth readings.
I asked the Lord for guidance of His Holy Spirit to grant me the wisdom to understand this entire matter. The result of my personal study was that Marv had it correct, and that the “pretrib” viewpoint was utterly wrong, and fabricated entirely on dispensational teachings and the visionary dreams of that Scottish lassie, Margaret McDonald, with no sound scriptural exegesis to back it up at all. So after 40 or more years as a “pre-tribber,” I, like Marvin Rosenthal was forced to reconsider and change my viewpoint forthwith. Since then I have ingested every scrap of information and writings on this subject I can from all available sources, I consider myself to be a “Berean” by nature and stand entirely on the indisputable truth of the Word of God.
This of course meant that I owed it to my “brethren” to try to enlighten them concerning doctrines they hold dearly, and while the “pretrib” viewpoint appeals to the comfort of the “flesh.” The “pre-wrath” viewpoint appeals to the “truth” of the word of God, which no true Christian could or should deny, or try to twist around to fit their own pre-conceived ideas. At that time, I wrote several articles on the subject and re-reading them today, I find nothing within them that needs to be changed or re-edited.
One of my proudest possessions is a hard cover copy of “The Pre-Wrath Rapture of the Church” personally signed by its author Marvin Rosenthal in April 1991. I have read it through many times in the interim and I am as convinced today concerning the truth of the Pre-Wrath viewpoint as I was back then.
My personal congratulations are due the dear Christian brothers who maintain this web site. This site must stand as a guidepost to all earnest seekers of prophetic truth in these closing days of the age. It is my prayer that many more Christians will become forewarned of the apostasy and perils that lie ahead for the entire church, and will take the necessary steps to guard themselves from the possible onslaughts of antichrist when he assumes his end-time role. Much future suffering could be avoided if the vast body of Christians clinging to the “pre-trib” position could be persuaded to take a more thorough and prayerful look into the Pre-Wrath viewpoint!
