4. The Partial Rapture View
• Only SOME will be removed.
• Only those who are “worthy” are
taken.
• Others will be raptured
throughout the Tribulation.
• The Tribulation will “purify” the
Christians and they are called
“overcomers.”
5. What passages are used?
Matt 25:1-13
Based on the parable of the ten virgins
6. What passages are used?
Seen as a
requirement in
order to be
raptured
1 Thess 5:6 Therefore let us not sleep, as
do others; but let us watch and be
sober.
Again, a
conditional
rapture view.
7. What passages are used?
• 1 Thessalonians 1:10
• 2 Timothy 4:8
• 1 Corinthians 15:23
• Philippians 3:11
• Hebrews 9:28
• Luke 21:36
8. The Midtribulation Rapture
Adherents to this view
believe that the church
will be raptured at the
midpoint of the seven-
year Tribulation period.
9. The Midtribulation Rapture
• Another view similar to this view is
know as the Pre-Wrath Rapture.
• This view is only a slightly
modified version of the
Midtribulation Rapture view.
11. What Passages do they use?
2 Tim 3:12 Yea, and all that
will live godly in Christ Jesus
Their thinking is that the church is
shall suffer persecution.
promised tribulation and must
therefore, go through the first 3 ½
years of that period.
12. What Passages do they use?
1 Cor. 15:52 In a moment, in the
twinkling of an eye, at the last trump:
for the trumpet shall sound, and the
dead shall be raised incorruptible, and
we shall be changed.
no distinction is made between Israel
and the church. Corinth, a local
church, was told of a coming time believe the
They
when all the believers would be angel andofChrist
trump the
“changed.” are the same .
13. The Posttribulation Rapture
Its proponents believe that the
church will endure Daniel’s 70th
week and will be raptured at the
end of the Great Tribulation.
They believe that the rapture and the
second coming of Christ are the
same thing.
14. The Posttribulation View
• Most posttribulationalists teach
that events of the Tribulation are
not to be taken literally or
futuristically, for the church has
always undergone tribulation since
its inception and is in the
Tribulation now.
15. The Posttribulation View
• Others teach that the church will go
through the Tribulation but are unclear
on the sequence and literalness of the
events leading up to Christ’s Coming.
• They mix literal and allegorical
interpretations of the Scripture.
16. The Post tribulation View
Rapture at the end of the Trib.
Great Tribulation Period
17. The Pretribulation Rapture
• This view is widely held by
Christians.
• The church will be removed from
the earth before the seven-year
Tribulation of Daniel’s 70th week
(Dan 9:24-27).
18. The Pre tribulation Viewed
“To meet the Lord
in the air…”
Great Tribulation Period
19. What do Pretribulation Rapturists Believe?
The Rapture is imminent.
• It could occur at any moment.
James said, “the coming of the
Lord draweth near (is at
hand)….behold, the judge
standeth before the door” (Jas.
5:8-9).
20. What do Pretribulation Rapturists Believe?
The Rapture is imminent.
• Paul taught, “that we who are
alive and remain unto the
coming of the Lord shall not
precede them who are asleep”
(1 Thess 4:15).
21. What do Pretribulation Rapturists Believe?
The Rapture and the Second
Advent are Separate Events.
• The rapture is in the air to meet
the Lord
• The Second Coming is with
Christ to come back to the earth.
22. What do Pretribulation Rapturists Believe?
• A division of time must exist between
the Rapture and the Second Coming.
• Believers are in their prepared places
(John 14: 1-3).
• The Bema Seat Judgment (2 Cor. 5:10).
• The Marriage Supper of the Lamb (Rev.
19:7-9).
23. What do Pretribulation Rapturists Believe?
The church will NOT experience any
form of God’s wrath.
• Paul said, “For God hath not
appointed us to wrath” (1 Thes 5:9)
for Jesus has, “delivered us from the
wrath to come” (1 Thes 1:10).
24. What do Pretribulation Rapturists Believe?
The church will NOT experience any form
of God’s wrath.
• To the church, John said God
would “keep thee from the hour of
temptation (testing), which shall
come upon all the world” (Rev
3:10).
25. What do Pretribulation Rapturists Believe?
The Church and Israel are NOT identical.
• The church and Israel have two
separate programs.
• This is indicated by Daniel 9: 24-27, a
key passage giving an overview of the
Tribulation.
26. The Pre tribulation Viewed
The coming of the Lord
COMING OF THE
LORD FOR THE
SAINTS COMING OF
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seat of rewards of the SAINTS
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27. 2 THESSALONIANS CHAPTER 2
Verse 1. "Now
we request
you, brethren, with regard
to the coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ and our
gathering together to
Him,"
28. 2 THESSALONIANS CHAPTER 2
"that you not be quickly
Verse 2.
shaken from your composure
or be disturbed either by a
spirit or a message or a letter
as if from us, to the effect that
the day of the Lord has
come."
29. Verse 3. "Let no
one in any
way deceive
you, for it will
not come 1. Great
unless the Apostasy
apostasy
comes first,
30. Verse 3. "Let and the man
no one in of lawlessness
any way is revealed,
deceive the son of
you, for it destruction,"
will not
come
unless the 2.
apostasy
comes first, Antichrist
31. 1 John 2:18-19, “Dear children, this
is the last hour; and as you have
already heard that the antichrist is
coming, even now many antichrists
have come. This is how we know
that it is the last hour. They went out
from us, but they did not really
belong to us. For I they had
belonged to us, they would have
remained in us; but their going
showed that none of them had 2.
belonged to us.” Antichrist
32. Wrath of Antichrist
• Dan. 11:36, “He will be successful until the
time of wrath is completed, for what is
determined will take place.”
• Rev. 13:7, “He was given power to make
war against the saints and to conquer
them.”
• Dan 8:10, “It grew until it reached the host
of the heavens, and it threw some of the
starry host down to the earth and trampled
on them.”
33. . "who
Verse 4
opposes and exalts
himself above England
every so-called France
Spain
god or object of
Italy
worship, so that he
takes his seat in
ÁFRICA
the temple of God,
displaying himself
as being God."
34. Verse 5. "Do you not
remember that while I
was still with you, I was
telling you these things?"
35. Verse 6. "And you know
what restrains
him now, so that in
his time he will be
revealed."
36. Verse 7.
"For the
mystery of 3. RESTRAINER
lawlessness is
already at work; only Verse 3. "Let
HE who now no one in
any way
restrains will do deceive
so until HE is you, for it
will not
taken out of the come
way." unless
37. "Then that
Verse 8.
lawless one will England
be revealed whom France
Spain
the Lord will slay
Italy
with the breath of
His mouth and
ÁFRICA
bring to an end by
the appearance of
His coming;"
38. Then that lawless one
Verse 8.
will be revealed
whom the Lord
will slay with the
breath of His mouth and
bring to an end by the
appearance of His coming;
39. Verse 9. "that
is, the one
whose coming is in
accord with the activity of
Satan, with all power and
signs and false wonders,"
40. Verse 11. "For this reason God
will send upon them a deluding
influence so that they will
believe what is false,"
41. Verse 10. "and with all the
deception of wickedness for
those who perish, because
they did not receive the love
of the truth so as to be
saved."
