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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...

ALAN HULTBERG This is a book debating the timing of the rapture. The rapture is a theological term that refers to the “catching up” of the church to meet the Lord in the air in association with his return and with the resurrection of believers. The term comes from the Latin verb rapio (“I seize,” “I [violently] carry off”), which is the Vulgate’s equivalent of the root Greek verb harpazō (“I seize,” “I snatch away”) that Paul uses in 1 Thessalonians 4:17, the primary text that teaches
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