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I've been saying for years that those who are waiting for a pre-trib rapture will be among the first to fall down to worship antichrist.
Hello Brendan, the amazing thing is that no matter who is right we'll all be together at the same time. A favorite Bible teacher of mine used to say about pre-trib skeptics, "Don't worry, we'll explain it to you on the way up."
At the Mystical Supper, Jesus prayed, "I ask that You do not take them out of this world, but keep them safe from the Evil One."
Good interpretation asks about whom is a passage speaking, and what is the context.
In the long prayer in John 17 Christ first prays to the Father about His ministry on earth.
Then Jesus turns His prayer to praying for His disciples. Jesus knew His disciples would be experiencing persecutions, that the world would hate them. He prays that although He is no longer to be in the world, His disciples must remain behind to continue their commission.
He goes on to pray that while He was in the world He kept them and none were lost.
Then: "I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil." IOW let them continue to preach the word to the world, but protect them.
Why?: "That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me."
In summary, Jesus knew He was leaving. He knew His disciples would be persecuted. He prayed for the Father to keep them safely in the world to continue the Great Commission, because the world needed to hear the word and to believe in Him.
Jesus was praying for a select, specific few -- His disciples -- about their time they had left to preach on this physical world.
So, with correct interpretation and understanding the context, there is no alluding to a greater "truth" supporting no rapture. It . Just . Simply . Isn't . There.
Pre-trib rapture was never heard of before the 1830's.
Except for the Acts churches almost 1,800 years earlier. God told it to Paul, Paul preached it, the church believed it.
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