The Rapture Trap? is an article I originally wrote for the Omega Letter. It has since appeared on Jan Markell's website and generated some interest. I finally posted it on Zeteo 3:16.
I don't really need to go into explanations. Rapture = controversy = pretrib is bad. You know the drill.
Excerpt:
Is the belief in a pretribulational rapture a trap? Is it really the rapture trap that some people claim? Every once in a while a magic lever gets pulled releasing a wave of criticism against the pretrib rapture belief and pretribbers. Lately, Facebook and YouTube have been full of anti-pretrib proclamations. One critic recently claimed it was the belief in an imminent rapture which is why Christians don’t care what happens to the world. He added that this belief is what keeps us from the being the salt and light we were intended to be...keep reading
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