The Doctrinal Belief of a Pre-Tribulation Resurrection. Is not spoken of in the Word of God. It was created by a sick and deranged woman

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Jackson123

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Pretrib doctrine is dangeros, It Will make people not ready for persecution. They believe Jesus love you so He Will protect you from persecution.

Yes Jesus love me, He love Stephen but He let Stephen die oN persecution.

Some people believe love mean not let persecution happen. The fact is in the history of christianity, persecution always show up, since the apostle time to now, If you go to north Korea, or middle east

Real Christian like apostle not afraid of persecutions but rejoicing If God let them to suffer for Him.

That is the different between apostle and us, we are not willing to suffer for Christ, they are proud, looking for the opportunity of Being suffer or persecute for Christ.

Act 5
41 The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing because they had been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name.

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TheDivineWatermark

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Yep, her statement is not biblical, so she was not God Messenger.
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Her supposed "vision" was not biblical... and it/she also did not describe a "pre-trib" rapture. (The idea that this doctrine originated from her so-called "vision" is incorrect and has long been debunked.)

For the readers to consider:


[quoting from wikipedia]

"The rise in belief in the pre-tribulation rapture is often wrongly attributed to a 15-year-old Scottish-Irish girl named Margaret McDonald who was of the first to receive a spiritual baptism under a Pentecostal awakening in Scotland. In 1830, she supposedly had a vision of the end times which describes a post-tribulation view of the rapture that was first published in 1840. It was published again in 1861, but two important passages demonstrating a post-tribulation view were removed to encourage confusion concerning the timing of the rapture. The two removed segments were, "This is the fiery trial which is to try us. - It will be for the purging and purifying of the real members of the body of Jesus" and "The trial of the Church is from Antichrist. It is by being filled with the Spirit that we shall be kept".[83][84]

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"References [...]

"83. ^ Hommel, Jason. "Margaret MacDonald's Vision" [ https://web.archive.org/web/20030115080400/http://www.bibleprophesy.org/vision.htm ] . Jason Hommel's Bible Prophecy Study on the Pre Tribulation Rapture. Grass Valley, California. Archived from the original on 15 January 2003. Retrieved 14 November 2016. Quotes the account in The Restoration of Apostles and Prophets In the Catholic Apostolic Church (1861).

"84. ^ Wilkinson, Paul Richard (1 December 2008). "Appendix: Margaret McDonald's Utterances". For Zion's Sake: Christian Zionism and the Role of John Nelson Darby. Wipf and Stock Publishers. pp. 262–263. ISBN 1556358075. A more complete version, combining the text in Norton's Memoirs and that in The Restoration of Apostles and Prophets In the Catholic Apostolic Church (1861), all cited secondary from Macpherson, The Incredible Coverup."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapture

[end quoting wikipedia; bold, color, and underline mine; inserted the link which didn't transfer from the article automatically, but you can find them there in the wiki article itself, at link]

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... I hope ppl only go to that link to see the two sentences [in red, above] which apparently were removed at some later time, but which show her to have described "the Church" going through [or existing WITHIN] the tribulation period, not being removed prior to it as the "pre-trib" doctrine shows ;)



[I've made numerous posts on the subject of "pre-trib" so won't do so in this post]
 

TheDivineWatermark

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Yes Jesus love me, He love Stephen but He let Stephen die oN persecution.
Pre-tribbers believe that any one of us can be "persecuted" (even to the death) at any given time. In fact, we acknowledge (as did Paul) that the Thessalonians (even way back then) were enduring ongoing "tribulations and persecutions" per 2Th1:4. ;)

So, this is not the position of "pre-tribbers" (to say such a thing).

"The Church which is His body" has been experiencing persecutions ever since the beginning of its existence on the earth in the first century [Eph1:20-23 WHEN (as to its existence)]; . . .

we are not awaiting the future 7-yr period in order to experience it ; l (it has been the experience of "the Church which is His body" throughout its history!)
 
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eternally-gratefull

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Some of the most highly regarded 19th Century Evangelists and Theologians wrote about and condemned this
doctrine at its conception. It is cultic in its origins and those who believe in it are being deluded.
As for being obsessed with disproving a group centring on the Bible would you say the same about writers who
set about disproving the Jehovah Witness and Later Day Saint doctrines. Both of those cults centre on the Bible as well
and often come up with seemingly convincing arguments for their beliefs. If a JW came to you with their doctrine
would you believe them? I assume not so why should I believe a Pre Tribber?
Wow, I mean wow, seriously?

your gonna compare a brother or sister in Christ who believes God may come and rapture, or “catch up” the church before the final 7 years of daniel with heretical false teaching non believers, who know nothing about Christ.

this is sad, and might I add, very disturbing.
 
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I do wish you'd knock-off the drama-queen routine. Pre-trib is an extra-biblical idea. Nothing more. It certainly isn't a test to measure the faith of Christians- whether they believe it or not.

It's a teaching that is based upon nothing but assumption. It assumes a pretrib rapture, and then interprets Scripture to conform to a pre-trib understanding, instead of allowing our understanding to conform to Scripture.”
I think if we look at it, all future prophetic beliefs fit this same mold, be it pre-trib post trib premil or post mil.

sadly these doctrinal issues seem to be some of the most heated arguments in all of the church, and its sad
 
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How in the world can you get pre-trib from Paul's writings? Post-trib makes sense. Pre-trib, no, not unless you postulate mutiple returns of Christ or a return of Christ that last for as long as the tribulation.
Actually if one truly studies all three of the pre mil theories (yes I call them theories) post trib has the least biblical support of them all.

i used to be an ardent pre-triber. I am not any more, because I spent a few years and actually studied all sides. and in the end, I have to admit, I really do not know what will happen. I do not believe any of us do, nor will we know until thing unfold
 
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Pre-trib makes everything work. Ties up all loose ends. Nothing else does.
Christ comes twice, the first time to meet/keep his Bride from wrath (at the home of the Bride BTW) at ANY MOMENT and takes her to the room prepared John 14 (Pauls mystery newly revealed), and then the end of the 70th week preceded by massive signs incl Dan 9 etc. with these Saints in devastating judgement where every eye will see Him to His earthly throne to fulfill all prophecy and satisfy all covenants.
Actually revelation tells us the woman (israel) is attacked but protected in the wilderness, so the beast goes after her offspring.
who is the woman’s offspring? Of course, those who are saved by faith in Christ. That would be us would it not?
 
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Why doesn't the Bible actually say that Jesus comes back twice, then. Can you show me the scriptures that teach this? Show me where Paul taught that.
The rapture is not an actual return.

we meet him in the clouds

in his second return he return to earth, he meets us here. In Jerusalem, as the mount of olives is split in two


huge difference here, two events
 
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That's right --- the climax and apex of this church age is the Second Coming of Christ -- when He will come for His bride and begin His 1000-year reign on earth. (all in the same "coming")

If you ever properly understand all that is written below, it will help disolve the deception you are under so that you may attain to a correct interpretation of the biblical prophecy concerning the End Times Scenario:

~ The 'pre-trib' interpretation of Daniel 9:24-27 is totally and severely in error.

~ There is no gap in the 70 weeks of Daniel. All 70 weeks "came and went" in a single unbroken span of 490 years. It is 100% past history.

~ There is no antichrist in Daniel 9:24-27.

~ There is no 7-year treaty indicated in Daniel 9:24-27.

~ The Abomination of Desolation is not specifically referred to or mentioned in Daniel 9:24-27.

~ The events of the First Coming of Christ completed the fulfilling of all of the things listed in verse 24.

~ There is no 'prince' in verse 27.

~ There is no 7-year 'prophetic' End Times period.

(A more explanitory discussion of this may be found here: http://mywebsite.us/BibleStudy/Seventy_Weeks.html)

There IS a 3.5-year 'prophetic' End Times period.

We call it the Two Witnesses.

It coincides with the Trumpet events, because it is the Two Witnesses that cause the Trumpet events to occur.

(They actually command them into existance.)

Both the Trumpet events and the Wrath of God (the 'vials') occur after the Great Tribulation period [is over].

Neither occur during the Great Tribulation period.

The Seals "overlap into" the Great Tribulation, the Trumpet events, and the Wrath of God (the 'vials').
Wrong

messiah came at the end of the 69th weak and was immediately cut off

then we are told events will occur after this happens

1. the destruction of the temple and Jerusalem, almost 4 decades later,
2. that the Site in Jerusalem will lie desolate through wars and a time that is to be determined, ending with a flood (still going on even today)
3. The the prince who is to come confirms something covenant with many for one week (7years)
4.in the middle of that week, he commits an abomination which causes desolation in the wing of the temple (most holy place)
5. Desolation is poured on the desolate, for a time determined
6 the end of the 70 weeks is culminated at the end of that time, we know it as the return of Christ.
 
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That's right --- the Church suffers persecution during the Great Tribulation period. And then - Jesus comes back, raptures the Church - taking them out of the way - before commencing with the pouring out of the Wrath of God upon the ungodly.
Read revelation, god starts pouring his wrath And it lasts for quite a while

what you just did here is disprove post trib, as there is no time to rapture the church, send them all through the bema seat judgment, and return moments later

in fact, if we read, when God starts pouring his wrath by opening seals. the church is there witnessing those things, already raptured and already crowned and given robes of righteousness
 
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Good grief man....the GT is the time of Gods wrath....the 70th week.
Nope

the first part is peace. No wrath

The great tribulation does not come until after the abomination, Jesus makes this clear in matt 24
 
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There IS NO 7-year GT.

There is no 7-year End Times period.

The idea comes from an erroneous interpretation of Daniel 9:24-27.
No it does not

get your facts straight man, any belief which comes from one passage is weak.
no one would believe a doctrine based on one passage alone


and ps, it is your interpretation that is erroneous
 
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I do believe that those seven years are the seventieth week, but the Great Tribulation is not the Wrath of God I challenge you to look up the word "Tribulation" and you will find that no matter where in the Bible the word "Tribulation" is spoken of, the word "Tribulation" in both the Hebrew and the Greek always MEANS or speaks of "AFFLICTION". Then look up the word "Wrath" and you will find that no matter where the word "Warth" is spoken of in the Bible in the Hebrew of the Greek it always MEANS or speaks of PUNISHMENT.
The words Tribulation and Wrath speak of two different events in the Bible and both words have two different meanings. God never puts afflictions on His people but in every event in both the Old and New Testaments the people of God suffered "Afflictions" at the hands of men. Not God
But every single place in scripture when men are tormented at the hands of God it is called "The Wrath Of God".
So during the Great Tribulation the people of God will have "Afflictions or be Afflicted" by the hands of men and not God.
This is where Matt. 24:29 comes in.
Mat 24:29 Immediately after the TRIBULATION of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

The sun, the moon and the stars aren't going to be darkened because the "Wrath of God has ended", they are darkened because their darkness is part of the sign of the coming/return of Christ. They are darkened because the most significant event to ever take place on the face of the earth is about to happen.
Which is why there will be 30 minutes if silence in heaven at the opening of the seventh seal.

Rev 8:1 And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
This is when the Resurrection takes place, the Holy Spirit and the Grace of God are removed from the earth and The Wrath of God is poured out on the earth to torment all of those who rejected the Gospel.
I know what you might have been taught but proof of the fact that the Holy Spirit will be removed from the earth is found in verse
2Th 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
The only thing holding back Satan and evil from filling the earth is the Holy Spirit. Once the Holy Spirit is removed there will be nothing to stop evil from being dominant on the earth. Right now The Grace of God is dominant on the earth.
Jesus said this tribulation would be greater than ever has been or ever will be

this is because God does what he has always done, use the evil of men to inflict his wrath. He used babylon and rome to inflict his wrath on Judah, he used assyria to inflict his wrath on Israel, he used Israel to inflict his wrath on Canaan.

 
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My God job is to fight against false doctrinal teaching and the Pre-Trib Doctrine is in my opinion is a false doctrinal teaching and my opinion is base on the scriptural research I have done on the subject. I have never been influenced by any train of thought or Bible school or any denominational teaching. All of my conclusions come from strictly researching the Word Of God and it was God who gave me an unquenchable desire to research everything I can and every doctrinal belief to see if they align with scripture. Even the tiniest little nugget attracts me.
I am ok with God judging me on that. I don't feel a bit guilty about calling a person who teaches a false doctrine Deranged dead or alive. I am not dragging her name through the mud she drug her own name through the mud by teaching/preaching a false doctrine.
As far as I am concerned she falls into the same category as Adolf Hitler, Carl Marx, Bernie Sanders, Judas, Satan and anybody else who teaches a false doctrine and causes believers to follow that false teaching. It makes me angry when I see it and my heart aches for those who follow a false doctrinal teaching.
You job?

you just destroyed your own credibility there

its not your job to do anything

this is a non salvic issue, and all your doing is causing division in the body
 
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Pretrib doctrine is dangeros, It Will make people not ready for persecution. They believe Jesus love you so He Will protect you from persecution.

Yes Jesus love me, He love Stephen but He let Stephen die oN persecution.

Some people believe love mean not let persecution happen. The fact is in the history of christianity, persecution always show up, since the apostle time to now, If you go to north Korea, or middle east

Real Christian like apostle not afraid of persecutions but rejoicing If God let them to suffer for Him.

That is the different between apostle and us, we are not willing to suffer for Christ, they are proud, looking for the opportunity of Being suffer or persecute for Christ.

Act 5
41 The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing because they had been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name.

p
any doctrine that causes division is dangerous. The same could be said of post trib and amil, dangerous for their own reason

whats more dangerous is attacking people and causing division i the church based on a doctrine that will determin no ones eternal destination.
 

John146

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For the other readers they are probably not aware you are framing end times dynamics in "paul only" doctrinal prism.

You are painted in a corner in Paul's preaching of the kingdom of heaven/God.
Paul never preached the kingdom of heaven. In fact, Jesus told his disciples to preach the kingdom of heaven only to the Jews. It was/is not meant for samaritans or Gentiles.
 
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Paul never preached the kingdom of heaven. In fact, Jesus told his disciples to preach the kingdom of heaven only to the Jews. It was/is not meant for samaritans or Gentiles.
the kingdom of heaven is for all people. It went to the jew first. then sameria, then to the uttermost parts of the earth.
 

Lucy-Pevensie

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BTW, the Church suffers persecution yes. It does NOT suffer Gods wrath poured out on the UNGODLY, and is expressly saved from this very wrath precisely as Paul says.
No the church doesn't suffer God's wrath.

A pre-trib rapture isn't needed though for that. No other position believes the church suffer's God's wrath either. It's a false claim by the staunchest proponents of pre-trib that their's is the only possible way for God to protect the church.
 

Lucy-Pevensie

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I think if we look at it, all future prophetic beliefs fit this same mold, be it pre-trib post trib premil or post mil.

sadly these doctrinal issues seem to be some of the most heated arguments in all of the church, and its sad
It's not something I want to fall out with someone over. Where you place the rapture isn't a salvation issue.

The problem is it's usually the pre-trib proponents who become emotional, inflexible and behave as if it's a heresy issue.
It's the pre-tribbers who are usually unwilling to study and discuss scripture without presupposing the ready-made narrative onto it.

I was taught a pre-trib rapture for years as a young believer. I couldn't see it in my own bible study. It doesn't add up to me.
When any attempt to question the theory is met with anger, insults and accusations of doubting the word of God it made me more suspicious that there is something wrong with the theory. It's not a supporting doctrine of the faith, it's not a salvation issue, yet it's jealously guarded with a near-fanaticism.

I tell pr-tribbers all the time that I hope they are right. But I'm not going to blindly follow them over a (proverbial) cliff when I can plainly see warning signs that the teaching doesn't stand up to scriptural scrutiny.