Answering a comment on “the falling away“: Lou said; “Tom, one great deserves another great; the great falling away deserves the great tribulation. Some wrongfully claim that the “falling away” in II Thess. 2 is the pretrib rapture! Yes, the...

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In our so-called enlightened age of reason, one of the most dangerous mortal sins you dare not do is to tell someone to their face they are liars or are lying. I realized this again when Paul Benson, the author...

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I recently commented on Scott Pruitt’s site, “Nopretrib” in response to a person with the pseudonym LT 77. This was Scottie’s response. Scott Pruitt commented on Faithful Are The Wounds Of A Friend. in response to Tom Lessing: In response...

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The Corrie ten Boom Trump Card #1 The anti-Pretribulation cohorts, including Jacob Prasch, John Haller, Joe Schimmel and Scott Pruitt, to mention but a few, are fond of using Corrie ten Boom as an example to corroborate their views on...

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What Happens After the Holy Spirit (Restrainer) is Taken Out of the Way I had someone comment on DTW and ask what happens when the Holy Spirit (Restrainer) is removed from earth, what happens during the Tribulation.  He said;  “If your...

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LEFT BEHIND OR LED ASTRAY:  PRE-TRIB RAPTURE vs POST-TRIB RAPTURE FACTIONS AND DIVISIONS Pre-Trib Rapture vs Post-Trib Rapture:  Factions and divisions have always been commonplace among Christians. How do we know this? Paul himself wrote: “For first of all, when...

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I was sent a link to an article called the “The Beast, The Dragon and The Woman” by Joe Crews from Amazingfacts.org.  I started to read this article and was very intrigued at the first few pages on his historical background information...

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I marvel at why Christians want to go through the tribulation, especially when the Bible is clear that Jesus is going to ‘catch away’ the body of Christ before the Tribulations starts.  Besides the Mark of the Beast where you...

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Posttribulationists believe that the church will go through the Tribulation to purge her of impurities and will be raptured at the end of the seven-year tribulation when Christ returns to the earth at His Second Advent to meet Him halfway...

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Introduction Many Christians argue that the doctrine of the Rapture is not important because it has very little or nothing to do with one’s salvation. This is not entirely true. Although belief or non-belief in the doctrine of the Rapture...

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