One reason why some people believe in a pre-tribulation rapture, is because they have the erroneous idea that only the Jews will go through tribulation in the last days. Clearly the scriptures teach differently to this: the whole world will go through great tribulation. The wicked will be punished for their wickedness by the end-time plagues, the church will suffer great tribulation because the wicked will try to exterminate it altogether under the rule of "the beast", and the Jews will undergo great tribulation through persecution from "the beast", when they reject him from being God . When we can see these facts clearly laid out from the scriptures, it will help to refute the error that the church must be raptured before the tribulation starts.
Posted on: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 14:24:00 +0000