<p>The timing of the Church's Rapture has been and continues to be among premillenarian Christians (i.e., they who affirm a literal 1,000-year reign of the Son of David upon the Earth in the person of the glorified Son of Man) a most contentious issue. They who refrain or boast that they are, consequently, "pan-trib" are only hiding from the fray behind ignorance or seek to keep a very shaky "unity" with others around the table where such issues are best left to the nether world of those who delight in counting the number of angels who can dance on the end of a pin. Under the adage that "They who stand for nothing may fall for anything" cannot be said of stalwart pretribbers (i.e., those who believe the Rapture comes before the final Week of human history as we know it to be--the 70th Week of Daniel's prophecy found in Daniel 9:24-27). They at least have conviction on the matter. Although this text will "take on" the alleged "biblical" assumptions of the pretrib Rapture position as doctrinally erroneous; it at least commends them for taking a position!Furthermore, they are our "comrades in arms" when push comes to shove in the trenches of "spiritual warfare" in the latter days. Notwithstanding our many compatibilities on key elements, not only of the Faith once delivered to the saints, but on a host of prophetic possibilities--we simply agree to disagree agreeably on one of the most important aspects of end-times' prophecy: The Rapture's Timing.This text seeks to systematically counter point after point made by those versed in the pre-trib position--and, yes, this is an in-house food fight . . . so if this might interest you, it would most likely be because you take your eschatology seriously enough to delve into these matters.Much is at stake regarding the primary issues of the pre-trib position relative to the chronological order of Matthew 24-25 - the timing of the "Birth Pangs of the Messiah" - issues defining the timing of the Day of the Lord, Day of Christ, Day of God - the nature of the Wrath of God/the Lamb vs. the "Devil's Great Wrath" - Tribulation vs. God's Wrath - the "Time of Jacob's Trouble" - issues surrounding the "Tribulation Saints" - Israel and the Church's possible "united testimony" in the Latter Days - the so-called "Imminent Return of Christ" - the "Last Trumpet" - the Revelation of the Man of Sin/the Antichrist - timing/nature of the Abomination of Desolation - the timing of the New Heaven and New Earth - the Fullness of the Gentiles - Who are the Two Witnesses? - John the Baptist would have been Elijah "if you would have received him?" All these and many more issues are brought forward in systematic fashion in an attempt to "deconstruct" the superstructure of the pre-trib Rapture of the Church.If you are easily offended by such disputes and find them counter-productive to the "main thing" of the gospel, we unapologetically do not concur with your position. It is time to examine these matters with all due diligence to determine if these things be so--what if one is the wrong and the Church embarrassingly, if you would, finds herself smack dab in the middle of the fray at the end of days until "they [the martyrs of the Church under the Fifth Seal] should rest a little while longer, until both the number of their fellow servants and their brethren, who would be killed as they were was completed" (Rev. 5:11)? Are these martyrs just the martyrs during the "tribulation" or do they represent the martyrs of all generations? Rev. 3:10 speaks of being "kept from the hour of trial which is to test them that dwell on the earth." Agreed. But are not these the same "earth dwellers" who delight in the death of the "Two Martyrs" (a.k.a. Witnesses) of Rev. 11? This nearly 500-page book - if you can endure unto the end - is designed to change your world view. It has an abundance of charts, references, indexes [both subject and Scripture] and is heavily footnoted. MARANATHA - Our Lord, Come!</p>

The Testimony of Jesus: Why the Rapture of the Church Matters

Religion & Spirituality

Douglas W. Krieger

Christian Books & Bibles

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

This fourth edition of SIGNS IN THE HEAVENS & ON THE EARTH…Man’s Days Are Numbered and He Is Measured has added to its title:  He Is Measured – in that the entire text subjectively incorporates the dimensions of Paradise to be that of the Bride of Messiah comprised of both the Divine and the human in eternal bliss but measured as a Holy City:  “Come, I will show you the Woman, the Lamb’s Bride . . . And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem” (Rev. 21:9-10). . . “And he who talked with me had a gold reed [the Hebrew “reed” or “rod” is some 12.6 ft.] to measure the city, its gates, and its wall.  The city is laid out a square; its length is as great as its breadth.  And he measured the city with the reed:  twelve thousand furlongs.  Its length, breadth, and height are equal.  Then he measured its wall:  one hundred and forty-four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of an angel” (Rev. 21:9-10, 15-17).  Ancient measurements and/or units of measure are comprised, in essence, of numbers.  They proportionately reflect the primary dimensions of earth, the moon and the sun—and even the grandeur of the universe.  Metrology is the science of measurement and/or dimension.  We affirm that there is, as discovered by the ancients, a “code of number” which repeatedly replicates itself in ratio and/or in direct proportion within astronomy, mathematics-geometry, music, a multitude of ancient monuments and, in particular, biblical objects, chemistry, the arts and even the social order as was the case with Plato’s discourse regarding Optimal Societal Harmony relative to his ideal Magnesia, juxtaposed to the antithesis of harmony and universal equilibrium, Atlantis.  As Magnesia is to the New Jerusalem, so is Babylon the Great to that of Atlantis.  There is either “order in the universe” as seen in the “Dimensions of Paradise”—i.e., the Holy City of Ezekiel and the Holy City, New Jerusalem or there is “chaos” – the City of Confusion is ultimately the City of Destruction and Desolation.  It is our stalwart conviction that the triumph of good over evil is the highest expression of humanity’s original design and is, therefore, the providential will of the Creator to effect both the recovery and the prosperity of His original intent that man—male and female—shall partake of the Tree of Life and by so doing fulfill the Divine Design to be in relationship with the Creator in fullness.  This book sets out on a “dimensional journey” which has greatly expanded over its original cover some 40,000 words in taking the supreme measurements throughout antiquity, along with those chronological and dimensional mysteries embedded in Holy Writ—especially those surrounding the “times and seasons” of the Son of Man—and woven them into a persistent pattern from the Garden to Paradise as the supreme and absolute means of the Creator in communicating to us the Divine Intention of the Ages in preparing the pinnacle of His creation, man, to be His ultimate reflection in eternal relationship with the Creator of the Universe.  Without equivocation—this writing is both prophetically and numerically challenging.  It surfaced not in the category of theology/eschatology but in measurement/mensuration (geometric dimensions).  It became the #1 best seller outside the bounds of religiosity—however, its greatest contribution to Christianity is its absolute manipulation of the Judeo-Christian use of “number” be it in “times and seasons” – chronologies, divinely designed objects like Noah's Ark, the Ark of the Covenant, Tabernacles and Temples - eventually, the "numbers" demand a “multidimensional” comprehension of the Holy City, Jerusalem, such as Ezekiel's Vision of the Holy District and John the Beloved’s view of the New Jerusalem; and finally, in the precision of number found in eschatology.  You will never read the Book of books again the same way--it will mathematically & dimensionally come alive!

Signs In The Heavens and On The Earth: Man's Days are Numbered...and he is Measured

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