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Three Views on the Rapture: Pretribulation, Prewrath, or Posttribulation is unavailable, but you can change that!

The rapture is a contested doctrine among evangelicals. Scholars generally hold one of three perspectives on the timing of and circumstances surrounding the rapture, all of which are presented in Three Views on the Rapture. The recent prominence of a pre-wrath understanding of the rapture calls for a fresh examination of this important but contested Christian belief. Alan D. Hultberg explains the...

desecrate the Jerusalem temple by setting up the “abomination of desolation” (Dan. 9:27; 11:31; 12:11; Matt. 24:15; Mark 13:14), which Paul apparently interprets as his taking his seat in the temple and proclaiming himself to be God (2 Thess. 2:3–4; cf. Dan. 11:36; Rev. 13:8, 11–15). Thereafter, the Antichrist will severely persecute God’s people for a final three and one-half years (Dan. 12:1, 11; cf. 7:25; Matt. 24:15–22; Mark 13:14–20; Rev. 11:7; 12:1–6; 12:13–13:8), at the end of which Christ
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