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Unravel One of the Biggest Mysteries of the End TimesWill Christians go through the tribulation? Is there any way for you to know for sure? The battle of beliefs about the timing of the rapture is becoming more intense. But what the Bible says about the future doesn't need to be confusing. People have been baffled about the pre-, mid-, and post-tribulation views. Who Will Face the Tribulation? carefully unravels the confusion, offering greatly needed clarity. With scholarly research, bestselling author Tim LaHaye uses God's Word to provide helpful and compelling answers to those questions so you can understand when the rapture will occur. In this book, you'll find solid explanations for why the rapture happens before the tribulationthe keys to interpreting Bible prophecy correctlytimelines and charts that give a clear picture of the end-times Get excited about Christ's return in this highly readable and informative study of the rapture.

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Publié par	Harvest House Publishers, Inc.
Date de parution	30 août 2016
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780736962599
Langue	English

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WHO WILL FACE THE TRIBULATION?
Copyright 2003 Tim LaHaye
Published by Harvest House Publishers
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Dedication
Dedicated to the members of the Pre-Trib Research Center, a group of dedicated prophecy scholars, authors, teachers, and preachers of various denominations who are committed to rightly dividing the biblical teachings about Christ s often-promised second coming. Their careful scholarship, teaching, and writing is returning the blessed hope aspect of His coming to the body of Christ, providing scriptural answers to their sincere questions, and inspiring many to renewed dedication to holiness, evangelism, and missions.
About the Pre-Trib Research Center
In 1991, Dr. Tim LaHaye became concerned about the growing number of Bible teachers and Christians who were attacking the pre-Tribulational view of the Rapture as well as the literal interpretation of Bible prophecy. In response, he wrote this book. In the process of writing it, Tim was impressed by the Christian leaders who, in Great Britain during the 1820s and 1830s, set up conferences for the purpose of discussing Bible prophecy. In 1992, Tim contacted Thomas Ice about the possibility of setting up similar meetings, which led to the first gathering of what is now known as the Pre-Trib Study Group in December 1992.
In 1993, Dr. LaHaye and Dr. Ice founded the Pre-Trib Research Center (PTRC) for the purpose of encouraging the research, teaching, propagation, and defense of the pre-Tribulational Rapture and related Bible prophecy doctrines. It is the PTRC that has sponsored the annual study group meetings since that time. The membership is comprised of top prophecy scholars, authors, Bible teachers, and prophecy students.
LaHaye and Ice, along with other members of the PTRC, have since produced an impressive array of literature in support of the pre-Tribulational view of the Rapture as well as the literal interpretation of Bible prophecy. Members of the PTRC are available to speak at prophecy conferences and churches, and the organization has a monthly publication titled Pre-Trib Perspectives.
To find out more about the PTRC contact www.pre-trib.org
To receive a free sample of the monthly digital newsletter, The Pre-Trib Perspectives , contact www.timlahaye.com
Other books are available at: www.timlahaye.com
Contents
Dedication
About the Pre-Trib Research Center
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: The Blessed Hope of Christ s Return
1. Great Expectation
2. Translated-Snatched-Raptured!
3. Kept from the Hour
4. The Great Tribulation
5. Blessed or Blasted Hope?
6. Who Says It s Obscure?
7. The Glorious Appearing
Part Two: The Scriptural Case for the Pre-Trib Rapture View
8. What Are the Options?
9. The Case Against a Mid-Tribulation Rapture
10. The Case Against a Post-Tribulation Rapture
11. The Pre-Tribulation Rapture: Believe It!
Part Three: Answering the Attacks on the Pre-Trib Rapture View
12. Target Number One
13. A Case Study in Slander
14. MacPherson s Vendetta
15. The Pre-Wrath Rapture Myth
16. The Most Absurd Charge of All
17. Why Do They Do It?
Appendix A: The Preposition Ek Means Out Of
Appendix B: Two Keys to Understanding Prophecy
Appendix C: The Handwritten Account by Margaret MacDonald of Her Vision
Bibliography
Notes
Acknowledgments
No author is a creative island unto himself. We are all influenced by others, sometimes consciously and at other times unknowingly. The following are individuals and groups that I know influenced me in the writing of this book, to whom I wish to express my heartfelt gratitude.
The authors I quote and those in the bibliography
Most of all, my wife, Beverly, who graciously endured my mental preoccupation during the writing of this book
The many who corresponded with me on the subject and sent material:
Dr. James Combs, Springfield, Missouri
Dr. Thomas Ice, Arlington, Texas
Dr. David Allen Lewis, Springfield, Missouri
Dr. Richard Mayhue, Sun Valley, California
Dr. Ray Stedman, Palo Alto, California
Dr. Robert Sumner, Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Tricia Tillin, Derbyshire, England
And finally, Harvest House Publishers, for publishing the book and making it available to the Christian community
Introduction
T he amazing response to our Left Behind series of prophetic novels (coauthored with Jerry Jenkins and still enjoying top bestseller status in sales in both hardback and paperback for all the books) proves that laymen who take the Bible literally want to believe what it says-that Jesus Christ will descend from heaven with a shout .the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up [raptured] with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord (1 Thessalonians 4:16-18). They also believe, or want to believe, that this will occur before the awful times of tribulation which our Lord said will try the whole earth, calling it the great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be (Matthew 24:21).
And why shouldn t they believe it? It is what the New Testament clearly teaches if you consider all the prophecy passages about the Second Coming and take them literally (unless the immediate context indicates otherwise). When Jesus promised to come again and take His followers to be with Him in His Father s house (John 14:1-3), He meant it. Believing that the Rapture takes place before the Tribulation allows plenty of time for us to enjoy the Father s house, which He has been preparing for almost 2,000 years, before returning with Him to this earth when He sets up His 1,000-year kingdom age of peace.
This concept is not new; it has been held by many for centuries. In fact, I shall show that it was clearly taught in the ancient world as early as A.D. 376 and in America as early as 1784, long before John Darby was born. Mr. Darby may rightly be accused of popularizing the concept in England, America, and Canada during the nineteenth century, but he certainly did not invent it.
Yet for some reason this concept, which has brought so much hope and comfort to millions of Christians throughout church history, has been under savage attack during the last 60 years by those who refuse to take prophecy as literally as they do other Scriptures. Some of these attacks have taken the form of vicious personal assaults on those who held the position, others have involved gross distortions of the facts. Unfortunately, those who have a vendetta against the pre-Trib Rapture have been amazingly successful in causing many innocent victims to abandon their expectation of rapture in their lifetime and in the process have not only stolen their hope but, in some cases, their zeal for service.
In fact, the original publication of this book was ignited by a letter I received from an old friend that contained a vicious and frenzied attack on the pre-Tribulation rapture theory. Obviously, my friend had changed his views! We had corresponded at some length over my concern that he was working too closely with Reconstructionists who refused to accept the plain teachings of the Bible on the nature of the kingdom of God.
In one of his letters, this graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary (he had been steeped in dispensational teachings, including the pre-Trib rapture of the church ) suddenly took off on a tangent to condemn this false teaching in terms I had never heard used in that context. I was flabbergasted and concerned.
Some weeks later a pastor friend wanted to make sure that when I held an upcoming family seminar in his church I wouldn t inject any of my prophetical views. The reason was that he no longer believed the church would be raptured before the Tribulation. Apparently he was looking forward to going through it.
About that time I received in the mail a booklet on the Rapture by an evangelist who claimed he was reared in a fundamentalist background and trained in a dispensational school. He attacked the pre-Tribulation position with a vehemence I am used to hearing only from Christians who attack heretics who deliberately deceive people about the deity of our Lord. He made claims and accusations against some of my theological heroes that could not be ignored.
Then while jogging one morning I was listening to a cassette tape by a minister friend I deeply admire and love, only to