the abomination of desolation and before the end of Daniel’s seventieth week, but which emphasizes the association of the rapture not with the middle of the week, as in midtribulationism, but with the beginning of the outpouring of God’s wrath on the unbelieving world some time during the last half of the week. In this book, the debate will be carried on by representatives of the pretribulational, posttribulational, and prewrath rapture views. In addition to the basic issue of the timing of the rapture,