Imminent Maranatha: The Anytime Rapture of the Church

Objections to Pre-Trib View

• "Those who believe in the Pre-Trib Rapture are just Escapists" ? Just tell them “if the Scripture fits, I’ll wear it!"   Luke 21:36 says “Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. (Luke 21:36 (KJV)) “ Further the word for escape in Greek, may very well mean TO VANISH OUT OF PLACE AND TIME. According to Strong’s dictionary." The Greek word  is ἐκφεύγω, ek-fyoo'-go and the root is from 'ek' and 'fyoo-go'. Ek meaning a primary preposition denoting origin (the point whence action or motion proceeds), from, out (of place, time, and fyoo-go, a primary verb; to run away (literal or figurative); by implication to shun; by analogy to vanish:- escape, flee (away).-Strong's Talking Greek & Hebrew Dictionary. The implication is clear here that to 'escape' could be interpreted TO VANISH OUT OF PLACE AND TIME. We who believe that the rapture will occur before the Tribulaion do not believe that  we will escape the Tribulation because we are cowards or not aware of what the Scripture teaches, but rather it is because we believe that is what Jesus taught and the Word says.
• "The Pre-Trib Rapture view was invented by John Darby in 1830" Post Tribbers will insist that the Pre-Trib Rapture view was invented not 200 years ago in 1830 by John Nelson Darby a Plymouth Bretheran Minister. That the Pre-Trib view was not heard of before that, there is no evidence of anyone thinking that way before that, and that the Post Trib view is the only one the Church believed since the Apostles.  You can tell them "HOGWASH" The facts are all of these statements are wrong and if you study up you can tell them why.  I will be posting the facts on this on an ongoing basis on page 4: Early Rapture Statements, but untill then search Pseudo Ephraem who lived in the 4th century or visit www.bibleprophesy.org/ancient.htm  and if the sermon does not come up go to the bottom of the page and select #1 Pseudo-Ephraem's Pre-tribulation Rapture Statement, where his entire sermon is posted and I quote him in Section 2 saying "For all the saints and elect of God are gathered, prior to the tribulation that is to come, and are taken to the Lord lest they see the confusion that is to overwhelm the world because of our sins. And so, brothers most dear to me, it is the eleventh hour, and the end of the world comes to the harvest, and angels, armed and prepared, hold sickles in their hands, awaiting the empire of the Lord."
• "You mean you believe in two comings? (of the Lord)"........You may here this question from those who beleive in the Post-Tribulation Rapture of the Church.  Don't let them surpise or stump you with this statement intended to "put you in your place". ANSWER 'YES I DO, ONCE IN THE HEAVENS FOR HIS CHURCH AND ONCE TO THE EARTH TO SAVE ISRAEL AND JUDGE THE NATIONS.'  And if you want to add 'JUST LIKE I THINK THE SCRIPTURES TEACH. HOW ABOUT YOU?' There are so many differences in the Rapture of the Chuch and the Second Coming to earth that to say they are the same is dishonest.. Buy the way if they have trouble with a Rapture separate from the Second Advent ask them if they have trouble with the Two Witnesses who are told to 'come up here' in Rev.11:12, or the 144,000 who are caught up or 'redeemed' from the earth in Rev.14:1-4. Ask them why they don't think that a rapture separate from the Second Advent can happen as it did for Enoch and Elijah, as it did for Jesus.  Tell them 'I WOULD NOT BE GUILTY OF SAYING 'GOD CAN'T DO IT.'