The Timing of the Rapture

The vast majority of Christians live with an eager expectation of Jesus Christ returning to earth. This is our blessed hope. This event will begin the vindication of His holy name. Yet, Christians hold to different views concerning how and when the return of our King will take place. Many believe that Jesus will return and rapture the Church before the beginning of the Tribulation period. Because of this understanding, they do not live with much concern about what happens during the awful time period decried as the Great Tribulation. Their understanding births their expectation, and their expectation produces their preparation. But what if they are wrong? What if there is no rapture prior to the Tribulation? Because they expect to be gone, they have not prepared for what is coming. This message shares a deep concern that those who believe in a pre-trib rapture are not Biblically informed. Where does the Bible teach a secret catching away of the Church that immunizes the elect from the reign of the Antichrist? This message presents a biblical framework for a post-Triublaitonal rapture, and is filled with practical exhortations for believers at the end of the age to prepare for the trouble to come. In the end, we must remember the all-sufficient grace of God who knows how to preserve His people in times of warfare.