Obsessed with Rapture (MP3 Download)
Does the Bible teach the idea of a secret rapture before a seven year tribulation period? What is the origin of this view? On this edition of the White Horse Inn the hosts discuss various end-times scenarios, and evaluate them with the light of Scripture. R. Scott Clark comments, "what our dispensational friends call a “literal” reading has more to do with their rationalist a priori convictions (”this passage has to teach x because we all know that….”). The great a priori is that God’s real plan is to have a national Israelite people, that it is God’s intention to set up an earthly millennium and to reinstitute the temple. A close, careful, literal, historical, grammatical reading of Scripture leads us to the exact opposite conclusion. As Mike, Kim, Ken, and Rod point out, the Old Covenant is obsolete (2 Cor 3; Heb 7-10). The typology (temple) has been fulfilled in Christ. Scripture teaches nothing about a reinstitution of a national people, an earthly millennium, the European Union, Russia, helicopters, or the secret rapture. "
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(4 votes) - Added: 09Â 18Â 2008