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7/25/19, 12/7/14 What About the Rapture? 1 2 7/25/19, 12/7/14 A. The usual arguments against the teaching of the Rapture of the church are two. What About The Rapture? 1. First that the deoctrine of the Rapture was invented by James Darby. There is a new mind-set in the latest movement about a. A Plymouth Brethren Pastor 1800-1882, the church and doctrine, called the Emergent church. which is false. 1. The new Post-modern Christianity is redefining the b. Though it is true he brought it back and church and the Christian. made it popular again. 2. The new Post-Modern church does not believe any 2. Second that the teaching of the Rapture is a objective truth can be learned from Scripture, so they recent doctrine. interpret the word of God subjectively and culturally, a. This is also false, being historically and under the guise of being like Jesus to live like sinners. Scripturally inaccurate. 3. The new Post-modern Christianity takes great b. Jesus taught the rapture. Jn. 14:1-3 liberties to drink, curse without any attempt to hide it, c. Paul taught the rapture. 1Thess. 4:16-17 being no different from sinners in the world. d. John taught the rapture. Rev. 3:10; 4:1 4. The new Post-modern Christianity is more interested in social issues to help and making people B. The credentials of the early church fathers. comfortable, rather than to preach and teach the object 1. The first century church fathers were the truth of the gospel through repentance and be looking disciples of the apostles. for the return of Jesus for His church at the Rapture. 2. Justin Martyr and Iranaeus studied under * So there are those from within the church that Polycarp. oppose and teach against the doctrine of the Rapture! 3. Polycarp worked with the apostle John for over twenty years in ministry. So we want to examine the Scriptures regarding the 4. Irenaeus also testifies he occasionally saw doctrine of the Rapture through a three-fold lens: the apostle John himself. I. The early church fathers on the rapture. 5. From Papias in 70 A.D. to Lactanius about II. The four different views on the rapture. III. The overwhelming evidence for pre- 285 A. D. , including Tertullian and Origin, millennial, pre-tribulation Rapture. the doctrine of the church fathers was Pre- Millennialism, till the fourth century, when I. The early church fathers on the rapture. they began to teach Amillennialism, named “Schism of Nepos”. (Dr. Johnson:24-25) 3 4 C. The early church fathers taught the Rapture. terrible things have begun, and know that 1. Irenaeus 130-202 A. D. on the subject of the still more terrible things are imminent, may Rapture, wrote: “Those nations however, regard it as the greatest advantage to depart who did not of themselves raise up their from it as quickly as possible. Do you not eyes unto heaven, nor returned thanks to give God thanks, do you not congratulate their Maker, nor wished to behold the light yourself, that by an early departure you of truth, but who were like blind mice are taken away, and delivered from the concealed in the depths of ignorance, the shipwrecks and disasters that are word justly reckons “as waste water from a imminent? Let us greet the day which sink, and as the turning-weight of a balance assigns each of us to his own home, which — in fact, as nothing;”….And therefore, snatches us hence, and sets us free from the when in the end the Church shall be snares of the world and restores us to suddenly caught up from this, it is said, paradise and the kingdom.” “There shall be tribulation such as has not a. We see use of language commonly found been since the beginning, neither shall in reference to the Rapture as Cyprian be.”(2) For this is the last contest of the describes the judgments of the end times righteous, in which, when they overcome as “imminent.” And he makes his belief they are crowned with incorruption.” on the timing of the Rapture when he Against Heresies 5.29 wrote that Christians will have an “early 2. Victorinus A. D. 240 in his commentary on departure” and be “delivered” from the the book of Revelation clearly shows he devastating global judgments that come believed the Rapture, “And I saw another during the Day of The Lord. great and wonderful sign, seven angels b. Cyprian is in line with the Apostle Paul having the seven last plagues; for in them is who wrote that “God has not appointed completed the Wrath of God. Rev. 15:1 and us to wrath, but salvation.” Cyprian these shall be in the last time, when the expressed joy and encourages the Church shall have gone out of the midst.” believing reader to rejoice that the 2Thess. 2:7 Church will be “taken away” before the 3. Cyprian A. D. 220-258 wrote in The disastrous Great Tribulation. Just as the Treaties of Cyprian describing the end times Lord Jesus Christ in Matthew 24:40, 41 of Great Tribulation: “We who see that 5 6 used the same language of one “taken” 3. The period is also divided by the phrases and the other “left.” Tribulation and Great-Tribulation. * The context is the Second Coming, a. Tribulation refers to the first 3 1/2 years taken refers to enter the Kingdom, the of false peace and deception by the Anti- other is left for judgment! Christ. c. Also Cyprian references the mansions b. Great-Tribulation refers to the last 3 1/2 which the Lord Jesus Christ promises to years of the absolute rule of the Anti- come back and take His believers to Christ as a tyrant from hell with the himself, “Let not your heart be troubled: authority from Satan. ye believe in God, believe also in me. In 4. The period is called the Day of God’s my Father’s house are many mansions: if Wrath, the Day of the LORD. Rev. 6-19 it were not so, I would have told you. I a. The seven seals will be opened. go to prepare a place for you. And if I go b. The seven trumpets will be sounded. and prepare a place for you, I will come c. The seven bowls will be poured out. again, and receive you unto myself; that 5. The Lord will return with His church to where I am, there ye may be also.” Jn. wage war against those who are gathered at 14:1-3 (Treaty of Cyprian) Armageddon and then judge the nations and set up the Kingdom. D. The early church fathers saw and taught the age a. The one-thousand years of Christ on the of Grace distinct from the time of Tribulation earth. Rev. 20:1, 3, 5, 7 and Great-Tribulation. b. Satan will be bound for a thousand years. 1. The seven year tribulation starts at the Rev. 20:1-3, 7 rapture of the church till the Second Coming c. The rule will be characterized by a “rode of Jesus to establish His Kingdom. of iron”. Rev. 2:27; 12:5; 19:5 2. The period is divided into two halves by d. The church will return to earth with Jesus three increments so that there can not be any to rule and reign with Him for a thousand mistake as to the literalness of it. Dan. 9:27; years over the people who did not take Matt. 24:15; Rev. 11:2, 3; 13:5 the mark of the Beast. Rev. 1:6-7 a. 1260 days. Rev. 11:3 e. The Jewish remnant will be regathered to b. 42 months. Rev. 11:2; 13:5 occupy all the land promised in the Old c. 3 1/2 years. Dan. 9:27; Rev. 12:4 Testament, in the Kingdom and Jesus 7 8 will judge the nations for their treatment B. The Post-Tribulation view teaches the church of the Jews during the 7 year Tribulaion. will be removed from the earth at the end of the Is. , Jer., Ezk. , Matt. 25:31-34 seven years of the tribulation and great f. The White Throne judgment will take tribulation. place at the end of the thousand years for 1. These individuals interpret the book of the non-believer. Rev. 20:11-15 Revelations as historically fulfilled, called 6. The early church fathers believed and taught “preterist”, which is spiritualizing or they the church would be raptured prior the treat it as yet future and spiritualize the Tribulation and Millennium! literalness of the events in order to * Pre-tribulation and pre-Millinnialist! harmonize with their interpretation. 2. Again they set a time of the removal which These are the early church fathers on the rapture! is inconsistent with the words of Jesus. 3. The removal of the church at the end of II. The four different views on the rapture. seven years would remove from the earth all believers, then who would occupy the A. The mid-tribulation view teaches the church thousand year reign besides Israel? will be removed from the earth 3 ½ years after 4. The removal would also not allow time for the seven year tribulation begins. the judgment of the believers, the 1. The first problem is that it interprets the last presentation of the bride to Christ and the week of Daniel’s prophecy literal, while marriage of the Lamb. spiritualizing the first half of the week in 5.
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