This post is based on the false notion that belief in a pre-trib rapture is "escapism." It is actually based on an honest persuasion that this is what the scriptures actually teach.
The hard truth is, that although the scriptures very plainly say that there will be an event that we call "the rapture," they simply do not say when it will take place, in regard to other events prophesied for the end times. So all positions on the timing of the rapture are based on interpretation.
I am thoroughly persuaded that even a mediocre understanding of the prophetic scriptures makes a belief in the pre-trib rapture absolutely necessary. For the end time scenario in the prophetic scriptures is simply not about the church. It is about God's discipline of his rebellious people the Jews, and the program He has designed to finally bring them to repentance, so He will be able to justly keep the ancient promises he made to their ancestors.
Our God has not only revealed the plan to us, but has flatly declared that it will work, that the final result will be that they will finally repent and turn back to himself.
It is well and undeniably scientifically and mathematically established that we are all "Jews" genetically; and it is well and undeniably Scripturally established that the ancient promises are fulfilled in and inherited by Christ and those who are in Christ (Galatians 3:16,28,29; 2 Corinthians 1:20; Romans 8:17; Hebrews 1:1,2).
Similarly, it is well and undeniably established that the Church experiences tribulation, as it always has, until its final deliverance; and that God can and will sustain even rapture wimps through it.
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