Last Days Madness by Gary DeMar

Author:Gary DeMar
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3, epub, pdf
Tags: Second Advent, Eschatology, Judgment Day, Christianity, Religion, Christian Theology, Biblical Studies, Prophecy, General, Ecclesiology
ISBN: 9780915815357
Publisher: American Vision
Published: 1994-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

No Evidence for a Rapture

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[1975] 1980 and The Rapture Plot (Simpsonville, SC: Millennium III Publish-

ers, 1995). John L. Bray disputes the Darbyite and MacDonald sources. He

has traced its origin to Morgan Edwards, Two Academical Exercises on Subjects

Bearing the Following Titles: Millennium, and Last-Novelties (Philadelphia, PA: Dobson and Lang, 1788). See Bray's Morgan Edwards and the Pre-Tribulation

Rapture Teaching (1788), Lakeland, FL: John L. Bray Ministries, 1995) for

documentation on this theory.

17. H.A. Ironside, The Mysteries of God ( New York: Loizeaux Brothers, 1908), 50.

18. Notice what Revelation 3:10 says: "Because you have kept the word of My

perseverance, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, that hour which is

about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth" This passage was written nearly two thousand years ago. The "hour of testing" was

"about to come upon the whole world [Greek, oikoumene. the inhabited earth]."

This means not long after the time it was spoken. That hour of testing was

the conflagration leading up to the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70, the

tribulation period from which Christians were warned to "flee," which they

did (Matt. 24:16).

19. Thomas D. Ice, "The Origin of the Pretrib Rapture: Part II," Biblical Perspec-

tives (March/April 1989), 5. Emphasis added.

20. Ice and Demy attempt to get around this admission in The Truth About the

Rapture ( Eugene, OR: Harvest House, 1996).

21. Timothy J. Demy, "Pseudo-Ephraem," Dictionary of Premillennial Theology, gen. ed.

Mai Couch (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel, 1996), 329. Also see Demy and Thomas

D. Ice, "The Rapture and an Early Medieval Citation," Bibliotheca Sacra (July/September 1995), 306-17 and Grant R Jeffrey, "A Pretrib Rapture Statement in

the Early Medieval Church," gen. eds. Thomas Ice and Timothy Demy, When the

Trumpet Sounds (Eugene, OR Harvest House, 1995), 105-125. For a refutation

of Demy, Ice, and Jeffrey, see Gundry, "'Pseudo-Ephraem' on Pretrib Preparation

for a Posttrib Meeting with the Lord" in First The Antichrist, 161—88.

22. Hunt, How Close Are We?, 199.

23. John F. Walvoord, The Prophecy Knowledge Handbook: All the Prophecies of Scripture

Explained in One Volume (Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1990), 496-97.

24. Jay E. Adams, Trust and Obey: A Practical Commentary on First Peter (Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1978), 129-30.

25. Greg L. Bahnsen, "The Prima Facie Acceptability of Postmillennialism," The

Journal of Christian Reconstruction, Symposium on the Millennium, ed. Gary

North, 3:2 (Winter 1976-77), 54.

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