The Greek word for âcaught upâ is âharpazĹâ and means âto seize, to carry off by forceâ or âto snatch away.â Someone who was kidnapped could be said to be caught up or snatched away by force and so this is the Lordâs doing however it is not done against our will because those who have repented and put their trust in Christ have by their own freewill chosen to believe in Him (John 3:16). I think Paul wrote this to the Thessalonians to reassure them about those who had already died and they feared that they would miss the Lordâs return or miss out on the kingdom. Paul expressly wrote this to reassure them that the Lord wouldnât miss any of His when He returns; therefore Paul wanted them to âencourage one another with these wordsâ that he wrote.
First Thessalonians 4:16 âFor the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.â
This will be hard to miss because when Christ returns again, He âwill descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangelâ so this wonât be something that believers will have to worry about missing. His voice will be accompanied with âthe trumpet of Godâ and those who are departed in the faith âwill rise firstâ and then weâll join them into the entrance of the eternal kingdom of God and that joy will be unparalleled in all of our lives and in human history.
Titus 2:13 âwaiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ.â
Troy Day I did not keep a copy above. This is the current revision. I do have an old paper copy somewhere that would be pre-trib specific. It is wrong to make an eschatological specific view an essential truth when equally capable, godly believers hold to different views on a peripheral issue within a denomination. To make pre-trib a condition of ordination would be unbiblical tradition.
In 1962, philosopher-scientist Thomas Kuhn coined the term âparadigm shiftâ to signal a massive change in the way a community thinks about a particular topic.1 Examples of paradigm shifts include Copernicusâs discovery that the earth revolves around the sun, Einsteinâs theory of relativity, and Darwinâs theory of evolution. Each changed the world of thought (some for better, some for worse) in a fundamental way.
From a political perspective, Constantineâs Edict of Milan, issued in AD 313, constituted the formal beginning of a major paradigm shift that signaled the end of the ancient world and the beginning of the medieval period. That edict legitimated Christianity and impressed upon it the Empireâs stamp of approval.
Varnel Watson
TRUE just like ALL church fathers were pre-mil till Augustine đ http://www.pentecostaltheology.com/the-early-church-fathers-and-their-views-of-rapture-eschatology/
Varnel Watson
John Edwards
Pre-Millennial Futurism is the majority view among evangelicals is true according to this paper
Varnel Watson
The Greek word for âcaught upâ is âharpazĹâ and means âto seize, to carry off by forceâ or âto snatch away.â Someone who was kidnapped could be said to be caught up or snatched away by force and so this is the Lordâs doing however it is not done against our will because those who have repented and put their trust in Christ have by their own freewill chosen to believe in Him (John 3:16). I think Paul wrote this to the Thessalonians to reassure them about those who had already died and they feared that they would miss the Lordâs return or miss out on the kingdom. Paul expressly wrote this to reassure them that the Lord wouldnât miss any of His when He returns; therefore Paul wanted them to âencourage one another with these wordsâ that he wrote.
First Thessalonians 4:16 âFor the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.â
This will be hard to miss because when Christ returns again, He âwill descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangelâ so this wonât be something that believers will have to worry about missing. His voice will be accompanied with âthe trumpet of Godâ and those who are departed in the faith âwill rise firstâ and then weâll join them into the entrance of the eternal kingdom of God and that joy will be unparalleled in all of our lives and in human history.
Titus 2:13 âwaiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ.â
Anonymous
True
Anonymous
PAOC (I am a member) had pre-trib, pre-mill. in Statement of Faith (though my favourite Pauline Bible College prof, Dr. F. was post/trib).
Anonymous
The older SOF was more dogmatic and possibly even a credential/ordination issue if I recall when I was in the 80s.
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William Lance Huget glad you kept a copy These things get changed and NO one ever remember how Biblical sound they were @ one time
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Troy Day I did not keep a copy above. This is the current revision. I do have an old paper copy somewhere that would be pre-trib specific. It is wrong to make an eschatological specific view an essential truth when equally capable, godly believers hold to different views on a peripheral issue within a denomination. To make pre-trib a condition of ordination would be unbiblical tradition.
Anonymous
In 1962, philosopher-scientist Thomas Kuhn coined the term âparadigm shiftâ to signal a massive change in the way a community thinks about a particular topic.1 Examples of paradigm shifts include Copernicusâs discovery that the earth revolves around the sun, Einsteinâs theory of relativity, and Darwinâs theory of evolution. Each changed the world of thought (some for better, some for worse) in a fundamental way.
From a political perspective, Constantineâs Edict of Milan, issued in AD 313, constituted the formal beginning of a major paradigm shift that signaled the end of the ancient world and the beginning of the medieval period. That edict legitimated Christianity and impressed upon it the Empireâs stamp of approval.