Rapture, Revelation, and the End Times - Conscious Evolution TV

What robin-bobin Does the Bible Say About the End Times? 973. Tim LaHaye, Rapture Under Attack: Will You Escape theTribulation? (Sisters, Ore.: Multnomah Publishers, 1998), 11.4. Ibid., 44.5. Ibid., 12.6. Michael D. Coogan, ed., The New Oxford Annotated Bible, 3rd. ed.,New Revised Standard Version (New York: Oxford UniversityPress, 2001), New Testament 420.7. For example, LaHaye and Jenkins write, “we are indebted toDaniel, the great Hebrew prophet, who asked the same questionswe would ask about spiritual conditions during the end times.”Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, Are We Living in the EndTimes? (Wheaton, Ill.: Tyndale House, 1999), 309.8. A helpful discussion of the three approaches can be found in CraigR. Koester, Revelation and the End of All Things (Grand Rapids,Mich.: Eerdmans, 2001), pp. 1–40. Alternatively, a description offour views, preterist, historicist, futurist, and idealist, can be foundin Merrill C. Tenney, Interpreting Revelation (Grand Rapids,Mich.: Eerdmans, 1957), 135–146.9. Koester, Revelation, 31.10. Ibid., 6. Koester refers to Origen and to Arthur W. Wainwright,Mysterious Apocalypse: Interpreting the Book of Revelation(Nashville, Tenn.: Abingdon, 1993), 203.11. LaHaye, Rapture Under Attack, 33.12. Ibid.13. NRSV refers to the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible.14. LaHaye refers to the three as “three main Rapture passages” inRapture Under Attack, 75.15. N. T. Wright, “Farewell to the Rapture,” Bible Review 17 (August2001), 8. Compare this to Tim LaHaye’s rejoinder in his TheMerciful God of Prophecy: His Loving Plan for You in the EndTimes (n.p.: Warner Books, 2002), 57–58, 73. LaHaye does notaddress Wright’s use of Old Testament imagery to explain 1Thessalonians 4:17 nor, in my view, does he seek to representWright’s position accurately in his rejection of it.16. Gary DeMar, End Times Fiction: A Biblical Consideration of theLeft Behind Theology (Nashville, Tenn.: Thomas Nelson, 2001),36. Both quotations from DeMar in this paragraph mention “pretribRapture” or “pretribulationism.” This refers to the belief thata rapture will occur before the period of tribulation. Othersbelieve that a rapture will occur in the middle of the tribulation(“midtrib”) or at the end of the tribulation (“posttrib”).robin-bobin