The Pre-Wrath Rapture of the Church

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Summary: Answered All My Questions
Review: As most reviewers have stated, I was raised pre-trib. However, no one could point me to the pre-trib rapture in scripture. I was also taught the Holy Spirit effectually called us to salvation. But how could tribulational saints come to Christ without the Holy Spirit? Oh, I was told, people would find bibles laying around, read them, and get saved. Heck, we can't get people to read their bible today and the Holy Spirit is with us. I even hear now organizations are making videos, for sale I'm sure, that will help "those left behind" know what has happened and get saved. I don't mean to be cruel but "how rediculous" is that?

This book answered all my questions. I did not disagree with one single point in the book and I can now say that I will be looking up for a mighty rapture and salvation from the wrath "of God" to come instead of being caught up by some secret rapture that will supposedly save me from a tribulation that the early church went through and many Christians even today around the world are going through. That is if I don't die first. Thank you Marvin Rosenthal and may God bless you for your dedication in researching and writing this book and for your obvious openness to the word of God.

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Summary: Imminecy does't have to be at odds with a pre-wrath rapture
Review: Because Mr. Rosenthal links the rapture to the trumpet judgments of Revelation (a part of the seventh seal), his position is not compatible with a belief in imminency (that the rapture could occur at any momment). I am convienced that it is possible to believe in the imminent pre-wrath rapture of the church. Such a view allows for a rather large "window of opportunity" for the rapture rather than a non-imminent "fixed point" within the tribulation period. In effect, it is possible to believe that the rapture is imminent and could occur at any time, from the present up to the time that God's wrath is poured out sometime late in the second half of the tribulation. Such a view does not require us to jetison a doctrine (imminency) which seems to have support from both Scripture and the early church. Nevertheless, Mr. Rosenthal has made a major contribution in bringing attention to the fact that the Bible does not indicate that the Day of the Lord occupies all of Daniel's sevenieth week (the tribulation), a universal misassumption within pretribulationism.

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Summary: ALL THE PIECES FIT!!
Review: FOR TWENTY YEARS I TRIED TO FIT THE PRE-TRIB. POSITION. WAS THE LORD TALKING ABOUT PRE-TRIB., POST-TRIB CHRISTIANS, THE ONES LEFT BEHIND ETC. ETC??? THEN I FELT THE LORD TELLING ME TO SHART READING REVELATION. AFTER THE SEALS, I WAS IMPRESSED TO STOP! AND READ MATH. 24. I RECEIVED A FEW THINGS BY THIS. ONE, THE LORD WAS PARAPHRASING THE SEALS IN MATH. 4-29, SPECIFICALLY 4-14. THEN HE ASKED ME A SIMPLE QUESTION. IS THERE ANYWEHRE IN MY WORD WHERE THE BODY OF THE CHURCH WILL NOT!! BE PERSECUTED BY THE SEALS, MANS PERSEQUTIONS, NOT GODS WRATH FROM HEAVEN, AS THE BOWL AND TRUMPET JUDGEMENTS ARE. TO PUT SIMPLY, THE LORD WAS SHOWING ME THAT THE SEALS ARE FROM THE EARTH, MAN AND SATAN, NOT FROM GOD OR GODS WRATH. EACH AND EVERY END TIME SCRIPURE IN THIS AREA SUPPORT THIS VIEW. TO MAKE A LONG STORY SHORT, I WAS MID TRIB. UNTIL I READ 'THE PRE-WRATH RAPTURE.' MR. ROSENTHAWS UNDERSTANDING OF BIBLE PROPHECY AND OLD. TESTAMENT SCRIPTURE FINE TUNED WHAT THE LORD HAS BEEN SHOWING ME IN HIS WORD. THE PRE -WRATH RAPTURE PUTS ALL THE BIBLECAL END TIME PIECES TOGETHER. ROUGHLY ONE THIRD OF HIS WORD IS PROPHECY, IF WE CARE ABOUT THE TRUTH AS THE LORD DOES-WE HAVE TO GET REVELATION AND THE END TIMES RIGHT. ONCE YOU GET THE PIECES IN THIS BOOK, THE WHOLE WORD OF GOD FALLS IN PLACE, AS FAR AS END TIMES. IF WE ARE NOT PREPARED, THE CHURCH IS GOING THROUGH THE GREATEST SPIRITUAL 'PEARL HARBOR'IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND. PRAY BEFORE READING, AND THEN READ 'THE PRE-WRATH RAPTURE'

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Summary: Mystery solved
Review: I have been a Christian for 27 years, graduated from a Bible College, served with an International Christian ministry and Pastored a church, but I have always been dumbfounded by the book of Revelation. Though taught the Pre-Trib view since becoming a Christian and having even taken a class using Dr. Pentecost's book, Future Things, I was never fully convinced. God's Spirit seemed to impress on me that the Rapture would be in the latter 3 1/2 years of the Tribulation. Now, having read Dr. Rosenthal's book, everything falls into place. The sequence of the prophetic events fit and the Bible text is clear. God is using Dr. Rosenthal to sound the trumpet to wake up His Church, and to warn them to prepare themselves spiritually for the Tribulation. I fear Christ's prophecy that many will deny Him (Matt 24:10) will result from people's disillusionment when they realize that what they had been taught (re. the Rapture) was false. This book is a must read. Highly recommended!!!

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Summary: More Pastors Should Read This Book!
Review: Marvin Rosenthal has probably drawn more criticism from pre-trib. supporters than any other Bible scholar who has ventured into the Eschatology field in recent years. After all, for years Marv publicly supported and taught the classic pre-tribulational view of the timing of the rapture, and for a man of his professional reputation to modify his views on such an important topic as the timing of the rapture mid-way through his active ministry years was to risk his credibility with his ministry peers and supporters. In spite of this professional risk, Marv followed his heart and the Holy Spirit's leading and dared to question the scriptural basis of the pre-tribulational rapture theory, resulting in "The Pre-Wrath Rapture of the Church". As I read through this book for the first time, I learned that Marv had stumbled upon many of the same foundational assumptions that pre-trib supporters often use to support their position as I had, and put forth a sincere effort to let Scripture speak as it was intended to speak to us, and not as we want it to speak to us. It is impossible to read this book without having a Bible also at your side, since Marvin constantly refers to Scripture to support his positions. While so many Christians today are content today to just accept the pre-trib position based upon the popularity of the "Left Behind" series or because a majority of today's evangelical ministers teach it, those believers who instead choose to objectively study what the Bible really has to say about the rapture will find this book to be both refreshing and enlightening. I wish that many more pastors and Christian academics would from time to time question some of the long-held traditions of the church and the basic teachings of today's seminaries, not for the purpose of creating disunity in the Body, but to ensure that our beliefs are based upon the teachings of Scripture, rather than just men. This is what the Bereans did, and this is what we should continue to do today. To me, most pre-trib teaching today is based more upon the reputation of certain academics and popular preachers than it is upon the teaching of Scripture. Whether you ultimately agree with the pre-wrath position or not after reading this book, an objective examination of Marv's points should cause you to at least question the popularity of the pre-trib position with so many pastors and Christians today. I highly recommend this book! For those who would like to hear the pre-wrath perspective from a couple of additional sources, try H.L. Nigro or Robert Van Kampen's works.