Twelve years ago Tim LaHaye wrote the following words:
“I doubt [Marvin Rosenthal] will live long enough to find Pre-Wrath rapture the recognized position…after the first blush of fadism passes, it will likely be forgotten.” 1998, Rapture Under Attack, p 102
Fast forward to today. Zondervan, the largest Christian publisher, today has published a second edition to the most popular rapture book, Three Views on the Rapture: Pretribulation, Prewrath, or Posttribulation. (This new edition now includes the prewrath perspective.) This will certainly catapult the prewrath position to its already increasing numbers. Coop and myself are interested in evaluating Alan Hultberg’s prewrath argumentation and will post a review in the near future.
Trust me folks, pretrib teachers have not wanted to see this type of book published. They have done everything (mostly the sensational types) in the past twenty years to try to discredit the prewrath position to prevent its deserved platform: personal attacks, malign, misrepresent, ignore, etc. So the publication of this book is good news in that it will provide the prewrath position a larger platform to make its biblical case for God’s people in the rapture discussion.
Once again a pretrib teacher is forced to eat his words. Please understand that we are not boasting or gloating – rather, we just wanted to point out another failed prophecy of a pretribulationist.
I conclude with a quote from Marvin Rosenthal’s from his 1990 book, The Prewrath Rapture of the Church:
“If God pleases, within fifteen years it will become a major position of the believing church.”
