tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31147681.post7565327872096493594..comments2024-03-22T08:15:52.097-04:00Comments on BaptistGadfly: 4th Year Anniversary!Stephen Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10866698322854892197noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31147681.post-16717457891698955412010-12-03T01:37:54.751-05:002010-12-03T01:37:54.751-05:00[Speaking of posttrib, you might enjoy this recent...[Speaking of posttrib, you might enjoy this recently seen web bit---Albert]<br /><br /><br />PRETRIB RAPTURE – HIDDEN FACTS !<br /><br />How can the “rapture” be “imminent”? Acts 3:21 says that Jesus “must” stay in heaven (He is now there with the Father) “until the times of restitution of all things” which includes, says Scofield, “the restoration of the theocracy under David’s Son” which obviously can’t begin before or during Antichrist’s reign. Since Jesus must personally participate in the rapture, and since He can’t even leave heaven before the tribulation ends, the rapture therefore cannot take place before the end of the trib! Paul explains the “times and the seasons” (I Thess. 5:1) of the catching up (I Thess. 4:17) as the “day of the Lord” (5:2) which FOLLOWS the posttrib sun/moon darkening (Matt. 24:29; Acts 2:20) WHEN “sudden destruction” (5:3) of the wicked occurs! (If the wicked are destroyed before or during the trib, who would be left alive to serve the Antichrist?) Paul also ties the change-into-immortality “rapture” (I Cor. 15:52) to the posttrib end of “death” (15:54). (Will death be ended before or during the trib? Of course not! And vs. 54 is also tied to Isa. 25:8 which is Israel's posttrib resurrection!) If anyone wonders how long pretrib rapturism has been taught, he or she can Google “Pretrib Rapture Diehards.” Many are unaware that before 1830 all Christians had always viewed I Thess. 4’s “catching up” as an integral part of the final second coming to earth. In 1830 this "rapture" was stretched forward and turned into a separate coming of Christ. To further strengthen their novel view, which the mass of evangelical scholars rejected throughout the 1800s, pretrib teachers in the early 1900s began to stretch forward the “day of the Lord” (what Darby and Scofield never dared to do) and hook it up with their already-stretched-forward “rapture.” Many leading evangelical scholars still weren’t convinced of pretrib, so pretrib teachers then began teaching that the “falling away” of II Thess. 2:3 is really a pretrib rapture (the same as saying that the “rapture” in 2:3 must happen before the “rapture” ["gathering"] in 2:1 can happen – the height of desperation!). Other Google articles throwing light on long-covered-up facts about the 180-year-old pretrib rapture view include “Famous Rapture Watchers,” “X-Raying Margaret,” "Edward Irving is Unnerving," “Thomas Ice (Bloopers),” "Walvoord Melts Ice," “Wily Jeffrey,” “The Rapture Index (Mad Theology),” “America’s Pretrib Rapture Traffickers,” “Roots of (Warlike) Christian Zionism,” “Scholars Weigh My Research,” “Pretrib Hypocrisy,” "Pretrib Rapture Secrecy," “Deceiving and Being Deceived,” and "Pretrib Rapture Dishonesty" – all by the author of the bestselling book “The Rapture Plot” which is available at Armageddon Books online. Just my two cents’ worth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31147681.post-37292186745372018022010-07-10T14:50:57.367-04:002010-07-10T14:50:57.367-04:00Dear Dr. Trader:
Thanks and God bless.
Stephen...Dear Dr. Trader:<br /><br />Thanks and God bless. <br /><br />StephenStephen Garretthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10866698322854892197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31147681.post-86865902974157049222010-07-09T22:09:37.726-04:002010-07-09T22:09:37.726-04:00Congratulations on your anniversary.
May God ble...Congratulations on your anniversary. <br /><br />May God bless you in <br />your continued growth <br />in the grace and <br />knowledge of our <br />Lord Jesus Christ.<br /><br />I am praying tonight for your dad.<br />May God's mercies be fresh upon<br />him day by day.Dr. Richard Traderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10060767397765926569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31147681.post-34671527367060209182010-07-05T16:32:14.847-04:002010-07-05T16:32:14.847-04:00I do enjoy your blog brother. Especially when you...I do enjoy your blog brother. Especially when you and I agree over the hard shells! :)The Seeking Disciplehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10850752852586928341noreply@blogger.com