but they view five passages as fundamental. If the doctrine is not taught in these passages, then it certainly is not taught in the rest of the Bible. The starting point for any discussion of a pretribulational Rapture is found in a passage that John F. Walvoord describes as “one of the crucial revelations in regard to the Rapture of the church.”15 We do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve, as do the rest who have no