I started a bible study the other night with this book. It asks some great questions to make folks think about what the scriptures actually say concerning tribulation and the rapture of the church.
Pre-Tribulationism says that believers will be snatched from this world to heaven suddenly and without warning.
Can you find even a single Scripture that explicitly says this?
Pre-Tribulationism says the rapture will come before the Tribulation.
Can you find even a single Scripture that explicitly says this?
What is the last enemy to be put down?1 Corinthians 15:23-26 New King James Version (NKJV)
23 But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ’s at His coming. 24 Then comes the end, when He delivers the kingdom to God the Father, when He puts an end to all rule and all authority and power. 25 For He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet. 26 The last enemy that will be destroyed is death.
If death is the last enemy, how does its defeat at our resurrection leave room for an anti-christ or other enemies after our resurrection, which we expect at the Church's Rapture?
1 Corinthians 15:50-55 New King James Version (NKJV)
Our Final Victory
50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption. 51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed— 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.[/B] For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
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“O[b] Death, where is your sting?
O Hades, where is your victory?”
In verses 50-52, the resurrected inherit God's Kingdom, presumably needing resurrection bodies to do so. This resurrection happens at the LAST TRUMPET.
But how many trumpets can sound after the last one?
Granted, Paul cannot have in mind the trumpets in the book of Revelation, which had not been written yet. But as we shall see later, Paul surely knew Jesus' teaching about His return. Can this last trumpet, then, precede the trumpet of Matthew 24:29-31?
I highly recommend this book!