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The Rapture is an eschatological position held by some Christians, particularly those of American evangelicalism, consisting of an end-time event when all dead Christian believers will be resurrected and, joined with Christians who are still alive, together will rise "in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air."
The founder of the Calvary Chapel system, Chuck Smith, published the book End Times in 1979. On the jacket of his book, Smith is called a "well known Bible scholar and prophecy teacher". In the book he wrote: As we look at the world scene today, it would appear that the coming of the Lord is very, very, close. Yet, we do not know when it will be.
There have been attempts to identify the origin of Darby's concept of the rapture – the belief that a core of Christian believers who have died will be raised from the dead, and believers who are still alive and remain shall be "caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air" (1 Thess 4:17) in conjunction with the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
The posttribulation rapture doctrine is the belief in a combined resurrection and rapture, or gathering of the saints, that occurs after the Great Tribulation but before the millennial reign of Christ. [1] It differs from other rapture views such as pretribulation, midtribulation, and prewrath.
Historic premillennialism is one of the two premillennial systems of Christian eschatology, with the other being dispensational premillennialism. [1] It differs from dispensational premillennialism in that it only has one view of the rapture, and does not require a literal seven-year tribulation (though some adherents do believe in a seven-year tribulation).
After the tribulation, Christ will return to establish His Millennial Kingdom. Prewrath tribulationists believe the Rapture will occur after the tribulation, but before the seven bowls of the wrath of God. Midtribulationists believe that the Rapture will occur halfway through the tribulation, but before the worst part of it occurs. The seven ...
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He outlined how the seven Churches represent the seven ages of the Church of Christ. [60] A typical historicist view of the Church of Christ spans several periods of church history, each similar to the original church, as follows: The age of Ephesus is the apostolic age. The age of Smyrna is the persecution of the Church through AD 313.