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Welcome
to our site. The clock is ticking and we're
working diligently to provide 24 hour coverage
of the northern skies as we wait and anticipate
the Rapture of the Body of Jesus Christ, aka His
church body here on planet earth!
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if the Rapture Camera is working. We expect to
have the location up and running in 2010. If
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pre-tribulationists often describe the rapture
as Jesus coming for the church and the second
coming as Jesus coming with the church.
Pre-tribulation teachers and preachers include
J. Dwight Pentecost, Tim LaHaye, J. Vernon
McGee, Chuck Smith, Chuck Missler, Jack Van Impe,
Grant Jeffrey, and David Jeremiah. While many
pre-tribulationists are also dispensationalists,
not all pre-tribulationists are
dispensationalists.
Mid-tribulation
The mid-tribulation position espouses that the
rapture will occur at some point in the middle
of the Tribulation period. The Tribulation is
typically divided into two periods of 3.5 years
each. Mid-tribulationists hold that the saints
will go through the first period but will be
raptured into heaven before the severe
outpouring of God's wrath in the second half of
the Tribulation. Mid-tribulationists appeal to
Daniel 7:25 which says the saints will be given
over to tribulation for "time, times, and half a
time," - interpreted to mean 3.5 years. At the
halfway point of the Tribulation, the Antichrist
will commit the "abomination of desolation" by
desecrating the Jerusalem temple (to be built on
what is now called The Temple Mount). Mid-tribulationist
teachers include Harold Ockenga, James Buswell
and Norman Harrison. This position is a minority
view among premillennialists.
The prewrath rapture view also places the
rapture at some point during the Tribulation
period before the second coming. This view holds
that the tribulation of the church begins toward
the latter part of the seven-year period, being
Daniel's 70th week, when the Antichrist is
revealed in the temple. This latter half of the
seven year period is defined as the great
Tribulation, although the exact duration is not
known. References from Matthew 24, Mark 13, and
Luke 21 are used as evidence that this
tribulation will be cut short by the coming of
Christ to deliver the righteous by means of
rapture, which will occur after specific events
in Revelation, in particular after the sixth
seal is opened and the Sun is darkened and the
moon is turned to blood. However, by this point
many Christians will have been slaughtered as
martyrs by the Antichrist. After the rapture
comes God's seventh-seal wrath of trumpets and
bowls (a.k.a. "the Day of the Lord"). The Day of
the Lord's wrath against the ungodly will follow
for the remainder of the seven years. Marv
Rosenthal is the primary proponent for the
prewrath rapture view.
Partial-rapture
The partial-rapture view holds to multiple
raptures of believers at the beginning and
during the seven year Tribulation period. The
term "partial" refers to the idea that only some
Christians will be raptured at a time. This is
in contrast to other rapture views which hold
all Christians would be raptured in a single
event. The criteria for who would be raptured
are those who will be faithful and watchful. In
this view, the rapture is in essence a reward to
the faithful. The writers for this view
interpret certain eschatology parables as
revealing the partial rapture, such as the
parable of the ten virgins. All ten virgins are
seen as genuine believers, in which the five who
were prepared are taken while the others are
left. Advocates for this view include Robert
Govett (1813-1901) and George Lang.
Post-tribulation
The post-tribulation position places the rapture
at the end of a tribulation period.
Post-tribulation writers define the tribulation
period in a generic sense as the entire present
age, or in a specific sense of a period of time
preceeding the second coming of Christ. The
emphasis in this view is that the church will
undergo the Tribulation - even though the church
will be spared the wrath of God. Matthew
24:29–31; "Immediately after the tribulation of
those days…they shall gather together his
elect…", is cited as a foundational scripture
for this view. Post-tribulationists perceive the
rapture as simultaneously occuring with the
second coming of Christ. Upon Jesus' return,
believers will meet him in the air and will then
accompany him in his return to the earth.
Authors and teachers who support the post-tribulational
view include Pat Robertson, Walter R. Martin,
John Piper, George E. Ladd[33], Robert H.
Gundry, and Douglas Moo.
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The
Rapture is a future event in Christianity relating to
the return of Jesus. The primary passage describing the
rapture is 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17, in which Paul cites
"the word of the Lord" about the return of Jesus to
gather his saints. Although most Christian denominations
believe in Christ's return, there are two primary views
regarding its nature:
1. Dispensationalist Premillennialists (such as
many Evangelicals, especially in the United States) hold
the return of Christ to be in two stages. 1
Thessalonians 4:15-17 is seen to be a preliminary event
to the return described in Matthew 24:29-31. Although
both describe a return of Jesus in the clouds with
angelic activity, trumpets, heavenly signs, and a
gathering of the saints, these are seen to be two
separate events, the first unseen, and the second
public. The majority of dispensationalists hold that the
first event immediately precedes the period of
Tribulation. (See chart for additional Dispensationalist
timing views)
2. Amillennialists (such as Roman Catholics,
Eastern Orthodox and others), Postmillennialists (such
as some Presbyterians, and others), and Historic
Premillennialists (such as Calvinistic Baptists, and
others) hold that the return of Christ will be a single,
public event. All passages regarding the return of
Christ, such as Matthew 24:29-31, 1 Thessalonians
4:15-17, 2 Thessalonians 2:1-3, Revelation 1:7, etc,
describe the return of Jesus in the clouds amidst
trumpets, angelic activity, heavenly signs, a
resurrection, and a gathering of saints. Although some
(such as some Amillennialists) take this event to be
figurative, rather than literal, these three groups
maintain that passages regarding the return of Christ
describe a single event, and that the "word of the Lord"
cited by Paul in 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17 is the Olivet
Discourse which Matthew separately describes in Matthew
24:29-31. Although the doctrinal relationship of the
rapture and the Second Coming are the same in these
three groups, Historic Premillennialists are more likely
to use the term "rapture" to clarify their position in
distinction from Dispensationalists.
Timing
In the amillennial and postmillennial views, as well as
in the post-tribulation premillennial position, there
are no distinctions in the timing of the rapture. These
views regard the rapture as described in 1 Thessalonians
4:15-17 as either identical to the second coming of
Jesus as described in Matthew 24:29-31, as as a meeting
in the air with Jesus that immediately preceeds his
second coming to the earth. Within premillennialism, the
pre-tribulation position is the predominant view that
distinguishes between the rapture and second coming as
two events. There are also two minor positions within
premillennialism that differ with regard to the timing
of the rapture, the mid-tribulation view and the partial
rapture view.
Pre-tribulation
The pre-tribulation position advocates that the rapture
will occur before the beginning of the seven year
Tribulation period, while the second coming will occur
at the end of the 7 year Tribulation period. |
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