Pretribbers, which pretrib "details" have proven true?
Could you please post some examples.
P.S.
During the many years that I have been studying this, here are a couple pretribber "details" that were proven FALSE...
Between 1981 and 1986, when the European Union (EU) had exactly 10 member states, the pretribbers were saying... The EU has 10 member states ("ten horns"), the president/king of the next country to join will be the "little horn". He will take over 3 of the other member states leaving 8 member states. Etc etc.
But what actually happened was... 2 nations joined at the same time, so the EU went from having 10 members to 12 members without ever having just 11 members. And then more joined, so there are currently 28 member states. So that pretribber "detail" was a major FAIL.
Since that prediction failed, Pretribbers bailed on the EU and switched to focus on the Western European Union (WEU).
Between 1995 and 2011, when the WEU had exactly 10 member states, the Pretribbers were saying... The WEU has 10 member states ("ten horns"), the president/king of the next country to join will be the "little horn". He will take over 3 of the other member states leaving 8 member states. Etc etc.
But what actually happened was... No more nations joined, and in 2011 the WEU was officially declared defunct (ceased to exist). Another pretribber "detail" that was a major FAIL.
So Pretribbers, which pretrib "details" have proven true?
There are 3 scriptural facts that concern the coming of the Lord to gather His people at the resurrection and rapture, in which once these 3 things are known, there is no more confusion about this subject.
15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive
and remain until the
coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. 16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive
and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17
1.] The resurrection of the dead in Christ occurs at the coming of the Lord, before the rapture.
- And the dead in Christ will rise first. v. 16
2.] Just after the resurrection of the dead in Christ, the rapture will occur at the
coming of the Lord, whereby both the living and dead in Christ, will be caught up together to be with the Lord in the air.
- Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. v.17
3.] The third fact about the
coming of the Lord, is that the antichrist will be destroyed, by the brightness of His coming.
- Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, 2 not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. 3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, 4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. 5 Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? 6 And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. 2 Thessalonians 2:1-8
...the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and
destroy with the brightness of His coming.
The 3 major things that occur at His coming:
- The Resurrection of the dead in Christ.
- The Rapture.
- The destruction of the antichrist.
Once each person comes to understand these three major truths that occur at His coming, there will be no more confusion about this doctrine.
JLB