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Awesome book, really ties up all the loose ends for all the characters in the rest of the series. It makes me want to read the entire series again.

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My prayer is that the church would pray that we would be accounted worthy to escape all these things and to stand before the Son of man as Christ taught us to pray always. Since Christ instructed us to pray accordingly, then it is the perfect will of God that we escape the tribulation. However, Jesus said to pray to be accounted worthy to escape and gave many parables to clearly show us we must not be negligent to God to escape. Jesus even said woe to those who give suck in those days showing us that just because a woman is with child does not mean she is worthy to escape the tribulation. We have a duty to know the will of the Father for our lives and to do his will to enter into the kingdom of heaven through the strait gate. Many in the church in that hour will contest the ruling of God when he shuts the door. The church will ask why has God done this to us? Here is why. Jesus taught us to pray a certain way and we have to obey his instructions to be accounted worthy to escape. Many prominent teachers in the church preach just the opposite of what Christ taught in this respect and declare that all Christians will be raptured unlike what Jesus taught in all his parables. Christ taught that if we intend to escape the tribulation we better be ready and prepared. He gave many parables illustrating what we need to do to be ready for his coming. Substantially the entire church world has rejected these truths because they are clearly written in the gospel and never preached. Therefore, the preachers' duty to warn has been breached and many will be judged unworthy to escape, they must endure the tribulation to be saved in the end. He that speaks lies will not escape. When Jesus went to Bethany to raise Lazarus from the dead, he asked Martha if she believed he could raise him up. She said she knew that he would be raised up in the resurrection on the last day. Jesus said the resurrection was on the last day four times. But Tim and so many other precious men of God teach the resurrection is not on the last day, but before the tribulation, which by all accounts is no less than three and a half years before the last day. Was Christ mistaken? Was Martha Mistaken? Are you mistaken? Someone must be wrong. Someone must be right. I'm so proud of men of God like Tim that have given their lives for the sake of the gospel, but let us reconsider some issues that perhaps the church has inadvertently overlooked. There's no reason to jump up and down like children because we are afraid someone might spoil our doctrine. Lets just look at what the Bible says and see if we can't all learn what Christ and the apostles taught. There is a rapture, which I will discuss later, but the scriptures relied upon by most of the churches to support the rapture teaching do not apply to the rapture, but the resurrection. Let me explain. The resurrection scriptures are found in I Corinthians 15 and I Thessalonians 4. Most of you in the church know them well but lets cite a few facts from the text. These passages refer to the coming of Christ in glory, the trump of God, the voice of the archangel, the resurrection of the dead, and the meeting of the Lord in the air of all the saints. And a very distinguishing fact that "We shall all be changed." Both are public events for all the world to witness. Jesus said he comes in glory after the tribulation and the dead in Christ shall rise. This is exactly how he said it in Matthew. "When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:" Matthew 25:31 So when did Christ say he would come in his glory? Jesus gave us the answer in the prior chapter. In Matthew 24:29-30 Jesus said, "Immediately after the tribulation of those days...all the tribes of the earth shall mourn and see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, fro one end of heaven to the other." These are the same facts that are written in Corinthians and Thessalonians. Therefore, because Jesus said all these things occur after the tribulation, it is a fixed event which occurs after the tribulation. What we were instructed to pray for was the rapture before the tribulation, not the resurrection. The rapture requires a follower to do what Christ taught in his parables. The resurrection requires a person to be saved before he dies. Jesus never instructed his followers to pray to be accounted worthy to be resurrected. The instruction was a prayer to escape the tribulation time. So no one should have to say, why didn't the Lord instuct us to pray this way and tell us clearly if we had to be accounted worthy to escape the tribulation. Now you all know that Christ was never negligent to warn us to compel us to be ready. Is that your gospel that you preach, too? Lets all obey Christ and pray as he taught. Ready or Not, Here I Come There are only two resurrections: one after the tribulation and another after the millennium. You must be a part of the first resurrection to be saved. Therefore, the resurrection is not the rapture because it would serve no purpose after the tribulation since the harm is past. However, even though you must be a part of the first resurrection (unless you are a believer who is alive at the time of the resurrection) to be saved, Tim and many others like him teach that natural Israel will be saved during the tribulation, which would be impossible under his own belief because he holds the resurrection occurs before the tribulation. Here's why the resurrection cannot occur before the tribulation. The preaching of the gospel will flourish during the tribulation. The foolish virgins will get wise in a hurry and the unwise stewards will decide to follow Christ with all their hearts or fall away. But after the resurrection no one that is not already saved will be saved. Therefore, the resurrection cannot occur before the tribulation based upon what Jesus says occurs during the tribulation. The promise in scripture is to repent to escape the wrath to come, which occurs during the tribulation. Jesus taught us to pray accordingly. Hence, the escape or rapture is before the tribulation during a negligence time. This is why all the parables have a negligence setting. There is no negligence setting during the tribulation, only panic and fear. Thus, nearly all the parables apply before the tribulation as in the days of Noah and Lot. The Apostle Paul alludes to an escape in I Thessalonians 5, but says at the beginning of the chapter that the church has no need that he write on the coming of the day of the Lord because everyone knows it comes unexpectedly like a thief in the night. So Paul believed that the fact that Christ was coming at an unexpected time was such common knowledge he said very little about it because it was virtually a non-issue it was so fundamental to the teaching of Christ. This is why the teaching that Christ only appears publicly after the tribulation cannot be true because at that time it will be expected. It will not be as a thief in the night. Jesus said in the tribulation you will desire to see one of the days of the son of man and will not see it until he comes with lightening for all the world to see. However, Paul uses many of the terms that are used by Christ in his many parables of his unexpected coming such as sleep, watch, sober, darkness, drunkenness, night, and escape. His use of such terms indicates he was acutely aware of the teaching of Christ. Hence, he references the parables of Christ implicitly. His epistles to the Thessalonians combined follow the same order of the synoptic gospel accounts of the coming of Christ which alerts the church to the antichrist and then the tribulation, but then backs up in time as do all three synoptic gospels and depicts a negligence setting right before Jesus returns as a thief in the night just prior to the revealing of the antichrist. In that night Jesus says, two shall be in bed, the field, grinding at a mill, and one would be taken and another left. (Luke 17) You cannot be left behind spiritually or taken spiritually. These are not even parables. These are prophetic statements of Christ, which Jesus says many will come from all directions and sit down in the kingdom of God with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. This can only be a physical removing of the ready Christians from the face of the earth. There flight is not in the winter or on the Sabbath. This is the rapture of the wise virgins and the wise stewards which Jesus gave more parables concerning than any other truth, approximately 30 parables and illustrations all pointing to the same truth. This is the most compelling truth in the Bible to love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. Indeed, Jesus gave notice to us in the church of our own negligence and the resulting judgment against us during the tribulation unless we are accounted worthy to escape the tribulation. It is the foremost truth of the parables of Christ. Where this foremost truth is rejected, it is foreseeable there will be judgment, specifically, against the church. This is the gospel of the kingdom that Christ preached that he said would be preached throughout the whole world and then shall the end come.

The Rapture	Customer Rating:
I absolutely loved this book and the series.....being a Christian, I am so thankful that God is in control. These books are so humbling to me!

Rapture the hope of many

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The Rapture proved to be a message of hope to me that the promise of God was believed by someone who was counting on that hope as much as I was. The writing style used by the authors is something to get used to but once you have mastered their style it presents a wonderful word picture for your mind to contemplate and digest. Man takes hope from various aspects of life one of which is reading. I have found that most of the reading material being written today is not up to the quality that I demand from my books but this whole series of books by these two writers has certainly made the grade in my estimation. I look forward to more of their special ponderings of The Word in the future.

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