Biblical Prophecy and Worldview

1. Owning Your Worldview Explores: Biblical Prophecy and Worldview

2. Session 4 Premillennialism and Pretribulationism

3. This session draws heavily from THREE VIEWS ON THE RAPTURE: PRE-, MID-, or POST-TRIBULATION. On Amazon: Three Views on the Rapture ISBN: 978-0310212980 Book Reference

4. –Norman F. Douty, The Great Tribulation Debate, Pg. 135 “Suppose we [who disagree with you] are mistaken, does that reduce your responsibility for tolerance?… Consider how much we have in common… I plead for moderation… Have a care for your own good. Will your Lord and ours thank you in that Day for treating us as you have?… So then, brethren, think on these things. By so doing, you may save yourselves chagrin in the day of reckoning that draws on apace..”

5. Session Overview • Perspective • Where do we get a seven year tribulation period? • Tribulation Terminology • The Preweek (pretribulational) View

6. Perspective

7. Afsana

8. –J. Barton Payne, The Imminent Appearing of Christ, Pg. 34-35, 1962 “The pretribulation rapture became a standard position of most Bible conferences and Bible institutes. Of greater influence than any other single factor was the Scofield Reference Bible (improved edition, 1917), which inculcated the eschatology of dispensationalism even while making its primary contribution as a popular defense of evangelicalism, when all else seemed to be falling before the flood of twentieth century modernism.”

9. Where do we get a seven year tribulation period?

10. Daniel 9:27 “He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’ In the middle of the ‘seven’ he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.”

11. Daniel 11:31 “His armed forces will rise up to desecrate the temple fortress and will abolish the daily sacrifice. Then they will set up the abomination that causes desolation.”

12. Daniel 12:11-12 “From the time that the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination that causes desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days. Blessed is the one who waits for and reaches the end of the 1,335 days.”

13. Matthew 24:15-22 “So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination that causes desolation,’ spoken of through the prophet Daniel -let the reader understand- then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let no one on the housetop go down to take anything out of the house. Let no one in the field go back to get their cloak. How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! Pray that your flight will not take place in winter or on the Sabbath. For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again. If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.”

14. Tribulation Terminology

15. Revelation Oriented Pretribulationism Midtribulationism Posttribulationism Tribulation Terminology Daniel Oriented The Preweek View The Midweek View The Postweek View Preweek Oriented The Rapture The Second Coming Greek Oriented Harpazo Parousia

16. Harpazo Word Study • Transliteration: harpazō • Strong’s: G726 • Original Greek: ἁρπάζω • Pronunciation: har-pad´-zo • Definition: catch (away, up), pluck, pull, take (by force) Strong, James.A Concise Dictionary of the Words in the Greek Testament and The Hebrew Bible 2009 : 16. Print.

17. Parusia Word Study • Transliteration: parŏusia • Strong’s: G3952 • Original Greek: παρουσία • Pronunciation: par-oo-see´-ah • Definition: a being near, i.e. advent (often, return; spec. of Christ to punish Jerusalem, or finally the wicked); (by impl.) phys. aspect:—coming, presence. Strong, James. A Concise Dictionary of the Words in the Greek Testament and The Hebrew Bible 2009 : 56. Print.

18. The Preweek View (Pretibulationism)

19. Preweek (Pretribulation) Rapture Hays, J. Daniel, J. Scott Duvall, and C. Marvin Pate. Dictionary of biblical prophecy and end times 2007 : 351. Print.

20. –Richard Reiter, Three Views on the Rapture, Pg. 12 “From the 1790s to the mid 1870s most premillennialists advocated historicism, believing that some events in Daniel and most of the Revelation refers to the Church age. Spearheaded by the Niagara Bible Conference, a growing number of premillennialists adopted the futurist view, persuaded that Daniel’s seventieth week was in the future and was described fully in Revelation 6-19.”

21. Preweek (pretribulational) Beliefs • The Seventieth Week of Daniel is the same event as the seven year Tribulation period of Revelation. • The entire seven years represents an outpouring of God’s wrath. • Define the Doctrine of Imminence as the Harpazo being possible at any moment in time. • The Rapture of the Church (Harpazo) is a separate and distinct event from the Second Coming of Christ (Parousia). • The Harpazo event will cause all believers to be removed from the earth and meet with Jesus in the air. • Believers will be in Heaven with Christ during Daniel’s Seventieth Week (the Tribulation).

22. Preweek (pretribulational) Beliefs • The Seventieth Week of Daniel is the same event as the seven year Tribulation period of Revelation. • The entire seven years represents an outpouring of God’s wrath. • Define the Doctrine of Imminence as the Harpazo being possible at any moment in time. • The Rapture of the Church (Harpazo) is a separate and distinct event from the Second Coming of Christ (Parousia). • The Harpazo event will cause all believers to be removed from the earth and meet with Jesus in the air. • Believers will be in Heaven with Christ during Daniel’s Seventieth Week (the Tribulation).

23. Preweek (pretribulational) Beliefs • The Seventieth Week of Daniel is the same event as the seven year Tribulation period of Revelation. • The entire seven years represents an outpouring of God’s wrath. • Define the Doctrine of Imminence as the Harpazo being possible at any moment in time. • The Rapture of the Church (Harpazo) is a separate and distinct event from the Second Coming of Christ (Parousia). • The Harpazo event will cause all believers to be removed from the earth and meet with Jesus in the air. • Believers will be in Heaven with Christ during Daniel’s Seventieth Week (the Tribulation).

24. Preweek (pretribulational) Beliefs • The Seventieth Week of Daniel is the same event as the seven year Tribulation period of Revelation. • The entire seven years represents an outpouring of God’s wrath. • Define the Doctrine of Imminence as the Harpazo being possible at any moment in time. • The Rapture of the Church (Harpazo) is a separate and distinct event from the Second Coming of Christ (Parousia). • The Harpazo event will cause all believers to be removed from the earth and meet with Jesus in the air. • Believers will be in Heaven with Christ during Daniel’s Seventieth Week (the Tribulation).

25. Preweek (pretribulational) Beliefs • The Seventieth Week of Daniel is the same event as the seven year Tribulation period of Revelation. • The entire seven years represents an outpouring of God’s wrath. • Define the Doctrine of Imminence as the Harpazo being possible at any moment in time. • The Rapture of the Church (Harpazo) is a separate and distinct event from the Second Coming of Christ (Parousia). • The Harpazo event will cause all believers to be removed from the earth and meet with Jesus in the air. • Believers will be in Heaven with Christ during Daniel’s Seventieth Week (the Tribulation).

26. Preweek (pretribulational) Beliefs • The Seventieth Week of Daniel is the same event as the seven year Tribulation period of Revelation. • The entire seven years represents an outpouring of God’s wrath. • Define the Doctrine of Imminence as the Harpazo being possible at any moment in time. • The Rapture of the Church (Harpazo) is a separate and distinct event from the Second Coming of Christ (Parousia). • The Harpazo event will cause all believers to be removed from the earth and meet with Jesus in the air. • Believers will be in Heaven with Christ during Daniel’s Seventieth Week (the Tribulation).

27. The Harpazo event will cause all believers to be removed from the earth and meet with Jesus in the air. “Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come on the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth.” Revelation 3:10

28. –Charles C. Ryrie, A Survey of Bible Doctrine, Pg. 170, 1972 “It is impossible to conceive of being in the location where something is happening and being exempt from the time of the happening.”

29. Preweek (pretribulational) Beliefs • The Seventieth Week of Daniel is the same event as the seven year Tribulation period of Revelation. • The entire seven years represents an outpouring of God’s wrath. • Define the Doctrine of Imminence as the Harpazo being possible at any moment in time. • The Rapture of the Church (Harpazo) is a separate and distinct event from the Second Coming of Christ (Parousia). • The Harpazo event will cause all believers to be removed from the earth and meet with Jesus in the air. • Believers will be in Heaven with Christ during Daniel’s Seventieth Week (the Tribulation).

30. Postweek Counter Arguments • The Parable of the Wheat and Tares tells us that the tares (unredeemed) will be collected first and thrown into the fire. • The overall narrative of the Bible doesn’t show God rescuing people by removing them. God rescues people by leaving them where they are.

31. Matthew 24:36-41 “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.”

32. Closing Thought “But the time of that Rapture with respect to the Tribulation is nowhere plainly stated…But, because this conviction is founded upon logic, inferences, and legitimately debated points of exegesis, I cannot, indeed must not, allow this conviction to represent any kind of barrier to full relationships with others who hold differing convictions on this point. May our discussions on this point enhance, not detract from, our common expectation of “the blessed hope - the glorious appearing of the great God and Savior, Jesus Christ” (Titus 2:13).” –Douglas J. Moo, Three Views on the Rapture, Pg. 211