The Pre-Trib Rapture Defended

Don Stewart • The doctrine of the rapture of the church can be simply stated as follows. At some future time, the genuine believers in Jesus Christ (not merely people who have a church membership or affiliation) will be caught up to meet Him in the air when He descends from heaven. Those Christians who are alive will be instantaneously changed from their mortal bodies into immortal bodies, from corruptible bodies to incorruptible bodies. Immediately before this happens, the believers who have died “in Christ” will be raised from the graves into their new bodies where they too will be with the Lord. This is the “blessed hope” of the true believers in Jesus.

Introduction
Question 1 For The Pre-Trib Position To Be True, What Does It Need To Demonstrate From Passages That Clearly Speak Of The Rapture And Passages That Clearly Speak Of The Second Coming?
Question 2 Do The Parallel Statements Between Jesus And Paul Rule Out A Pre-Tribulation Rapture?
Question 3 Does Second Thessalonians Chapter One Provide Clear Evidence For A Post-tribulation Rapture?
Question 4 If The Church Participates In The First Resurrection, Does This Mean The Rapture Is Post-Tribulational? (Revelation 20:4-6)
Question 5 Since the Church is Raptured at the Last Trumpet Does This Mean a Post-Tribulational Rapture?
Question 6 Does The Gathering of the Elect at the Second Coming Indicate A Post Tribulation Rapture? (Matthew 24:29)
Question 7 Does Paul Use A Technical Greek Term In Describing The Rapture Which Makes Clear It Is Post-Tribulational? (1 Thessalonians 4:17)
Question 8 When Does The Wrath Of God Begin? Does God Protect Christians From His Divine Wrath?
Question 9 Does The Bible Teach That Christ Could Come At Any Moment? (The Imminent Coming Of Christ)
Question 10 Do The Various Greek Terms Used To Describe The Rapture Settle The Question as to its Timing?
Question 11 Who or What Is Restraining the Final Antichrist?
Question 12 Who Are The Twenty-Four Elders? Does Their Identity Help Solve The Rapture Question?
Question 13 Does Paul Statement About Wishing To Attain The Resurrection Of The Dead Give Evidence Of A PreTribulation Rapture? (Philippians 3:11)
Question 14 Does The Greek Text Of Revelation 5:8-10, As Found In The King James Version, Teach A Pre-Tribulation Rapture??
Question 15 When Jesus Spoke Of One Person Being Taken And Another Left Behind, Was He Speaking Of The Rapture? (Matthew 24:40-42, Luke 17:34-36)
Question 16 Will Old Testament Believers Be Raised At The Rapture Of The Church?
Question 17 Will The People Who Have Rejected The Gospel Before The Rapture Takes Place Have Another Chance To Believe After It Has Occurred?
Question 18 How Will The Rapture Be Explained By Those Who Are Left Behind?
Appendix 1 If There Is A Literal Millennium On The Earth Who Will Populate It?

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