Good book on Pre-Trib
Another Look at the Rapture
by Roy H. Hicks, D.D.
1982
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Something Has To Happen Soon......................................13
2 Paul's Special Revelation of the Rapture..........................21
3 Rapture and Resurrection...................................... ............31
4 2 Thessalonians 2................................................. ................39
5 The Church Will Not Be Surprised...................................53
6 Confusion Surrounding Matthew 24................................63
7 The Book of Revelation........................................ ...............73
8 As The Lightning .................................................. ..............85
9 America In Prophecy.......................................... ................93
10 Believing For Our Loved Ones......................................101
Summary
From the Summary...
....Some people, arguing against the hope of the Rapture, believe that because the Church has not always taught and emphasized this truth, it is only a "Johnny-come-lately" doctrine. It has even been hinted that this is an American theological dream.
The doctrine of the Resurrection of the dead and the Rapture of the living has always been believed and written about. It was not emphasized for many centuries, and rightly so, because the Church then was hundreds of years away from the time it would happen. Also, then, as now, there was confusion between the Rapture and the Second Coming of our Lord. In the Rapture we rise to meet Him; in the Second Coming He comes to the earth to rule and to reign.
In regard to this great truth of the Rapture not being emphasized in certain periods of Church history, we must acknowledge that other great truths were also submerged at times. Justification by faith, baptism of the Holy Spirit, glossalalia, and divine healing in the Atonement were hidden from view during some periods of history. It is only right and proper for the Holy Spirit to greatly emphasize this great truth now because of the imminence of events leading up to a catastrophic climax.....
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