(Revelation 3: 10) “Because you have kept My command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole world to test those who live on the earth.”
Whenever we study any Biblical doctrine there are four fundamental principles of interpreting Biblical truth. Firstly, we always begin with what is plainly taught in the Biblical texts we are studying, not what may be or may not be inferred or implied. Secondly, we need to look at why was the book written and to whom? Thirdly, we need to ask ourselves what it meant for the people that it was written to and what does it mean for us today as the Body of Messiah. Fourthly, we always look at the context of any passage of scripture in light of its co-texts.
Since the middle of the 19th Century the doctrine of a pre-tribulation rapture of the Body of Messiah before a seven year period of trial and testing that will engulf the whole world was imposed on the Body of Messiah in the western democracies primarily by the teaching of John Nelson Darby introducing his Dispensational system of eschatology which made a radical separation between Israel and the Church which scripture does not make. However, because of the persecution that is coming to the Body of Messiah in the western democracies the matter that needs to be addressed yet again is the doctrine of a pre-tribulation rapture of the Body of Messiah before the man of sin arrives on the world’s stage and the tribulation commences. But does the Bible teach a pre-tribulation rapture?..
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