Pre-Tribulation Rapture in the Early Church St Ephraem the Syrian

St Ephraem the Syrian, 373 A.D. text from
JoshuaNet, 18 May. 2011. http://www.joshuanet.org/articles/ephraem1.htm
"On the Last Times, the Antichrist, and the End of the World"

"...prepare ourselves for the meeting of the Lord Christ, so that He may draw us from the confusion, which overwhelms the world...
Because all saints and the Elect of the Lord are gathered together before the tribulation which is to about to come and are taken to the Lord, in order that they may not see at any time the confusion which overwhelms the world because of our sins

But when the time of the abomination of his desolation begins to approach, having been made legal, he takes the empire.... Therefore, when he receives the kingdom, he orders the temple of God to be rebuilt for himself, which is in Jerusalem; who, after coming into it, he shall sit as God and order that he be adored by all nations ... then all people from everywhere shall flock together to him at the city of Jerusalem, and the holy city shall be trampled on by the nations for forty-two months just as the holy apostle says in the Apocalypse, which become three and a half years, 1260 days...

And when the three and a half years have been completed, the time of the Antichrist, through which he will have seduced the world, after the resurrection of the two prophets, in the hour which the world does not know, and on the day which the enemy or son of perdition does not know, will come the sign of the Son of Man, and coming forward the Lord shall appear with great power and much majesty, with the sign of the word of salvation going before him, and also even with all the powers of the heavens with the whole chorus of the saints.... Then Christ shall come and the enemy shall be thrown into confusion, and the Lord shall destroy him by the Spirit of his mouth. And he shall be bound and shall be plunged into the abyss of everlasting fire alive with his father Satan; and all people, who do his wishes, shall perish with him forever; but the righteous ones shall inherit everlasting life with the Lord for ever and ever."

===================================
for more information about the rapture and its meaning, please visit http://expectingtherapture.blogspot.com/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• rapture
• pre-tribulation
• early
• church
• christian
• Jesus
• Second
• Coming
• Antichrist
• armageddon
• Jerusalem
• temple
• 666
• May
• 21
• 2012
• comet
• nibiru
• planetx
• galactic
• alignment
• rescue
• planet
• earth
• extraterrestrial
• et
• ufo
• alien
• spaceship