Resurrection and the Rapture, with Jim McClarty - part 18

Resurrection and the Rapture
With Jim McClarty from GCA's eschatology series on the topic of Resurrection and the Rapture.

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The Book of Revelation - http://www.gcaarchive.com/revelation.shtml

The Rapture and the Gospels - http://www.salvationbygrace.org/uc/sub/qaprint.aspx?qa=86&local=8b

Ephraim and the Rapture - http://www.salvationbygrace.org/uc/sub/qaprint.aspx?qa=26&local=2b

Jim have said in a document of GCA's Q&A that:
I would only say that we must be careful when doing our Bible study on any particular subject that concentrate on those passages that directly address the subject we're studying. So then, when forming our understanding of the rapture of the Church, it's best to study Paul's letters. In that regard, I would offer my defence of the pre-tribulation position, "A Brief History of the Future." While it is technically "still in the works," it is available on our website here:

"A Brief History of the Future." (The seventh chapter, entitled "The Chronos," may prove especially helpful.) - http://www.salvationbygrace.org/default.aspx?ct=sub/hof


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[cheagan]

And sorry, but why would Paul suddenly shift gears in "chapter" 5 (a human invention, for no such delineation exists) to speak about some other subject completely ("the day of the Lord")? Answer: he doesn't! It's still the same thought within the same monologue. We are "children of the light... therefore let us not sleep" SO THAT we won't be caught off-guard when the day arrives. Why else the warning? The pre-trib theory is the last dying vestige of the dispensational heresy. Just let go of it!

[cheagan]

One question: if harpazo is an action taken against something (an object, like the transitive verb in English), and apostasia is an action done BY someone (without an object, like the intransitive in English), then how can the two be related? Why would Paul have used such disparate terms to describe the same event? That would be like saying, "My tv departed when I was robbed."