within the age of Israel). This means that no prophecy refers to the church; it is not predicted in the Old Testament. This being the case, the rapture can take place at any time. All unfulfilled prophecies concern the tribulation, the millennium, or the eternal state. They have nothing to do with events during the church age (however, dispensational writers have often waffled on this point, declaring that this or that event—the rise of Mussolini’s “Revised Roman Empire,” or the atheism of the Soviet