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It is a major view that can be traced to the early church. The tribulation is spiritualized, or non-literal. [15] The tribulation precedes the Second Coming, after which there will be a literal Millennium (1,000 year reign of Christ on earth). [16] The concept of a rapture of the church precedes the Second Coming. [17]
Pre-tribulation rapture theology originated in the eighteenth century, with the Puritan preachers Increase Mather and Cotton Mather, and was popularized extensively in the 1830s by John Nelson Darby [102] [103] and the Plymouth Brethren, [104] and further in the United States by the wide circulation of the Scofield Reference Bible in the early ...
1863 prophetic chart including the beasts of Revelation interpreted as paganism, the papacy and Protestantism Note: This section describes the traditional view of the church. Following the close of probation will be a "time of trouble," a brief but intense period of time immediately preceding the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
The posttribulation position places the rapture at the end of the tribulation period. Posttribulation writers define the tribulation period in a generic sense as the entire present age, or in a specific sense of a period of time preceding the second coming of Christ. [99] The emphasis in this view is that the church will undergo the tribulation ...
Christian predictions typically refer to events like the Rapture, Great Tribulation, Last Judgment, and the Second Coming of Christ. End-time events are normally predicted to occur within the lifetime of the person making the prediction and are usually made using the Bible—in particular the New Testament —as either the primary or exclusive ...
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).
In 1989, Whisenant published The Final Shout: Rapture Report 1989, updating his prediction to 1989. [34] 1993 Edgar C. Whisenant When his 1989 prediction failed, Whisenant predicted the Second Coming in 1993, publishing 23 Reasons Why a Pre-Tribulation Rapture Looks Like it will Occur on Rosh-Hashanah 1993. [35] 6 September 1994 Harold Camping
Christians who follow the Posttribulation rapture doctrine, argue that the seventh trumpet is the last trumpet mentioned in I Corinthians 15:52, [21] and that there is a strong correlation between the events mentioned in Isaiah 27:13, [22] Matthew 24:29-31, [23] and I Thessalonians 4:16. [24]