Here’s my chat with Daniel Hummel about his new book The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism: How the Evangelical Battle Over the End Times Shaped a Nation. With its focus on the End Times, including the Rapture, Dispensationalism has been a tremendous force in U.S. evangelical Christianity in the 20th century but now is in decline. Hummel’s book tells the story.
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Comment by Wayne on June 1, 2024 at 11:31 am
Interesting interview. I am encouraged that there seems to be a decline in dispensationalism, which supports a pre-trib rapture. This is a false prophecy. There will be a rapture that occurs at Yeshua’s Second Coming at the end of the Big Trouble, but there is no rapture before the Great Tribulation. There is not one bible verse that supports this. The entire book of Revelation is a manuscript for martyrdom for Believers. By the way, Believers are protected from God’s wrath during the Great Tribulation, as stated in Revelation. Revelation is written for Believers (the Church).
Paul is VERY clear in 2 Thessalonians 2 that the rapture will not occur until the the man of lawless is revealed…. 3 Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness[b] is revealed, the son of destruction,[c] 4 who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.
Daniel Hummel mentioned George Eldon Ladd. I have read two books by George Ladd that I recommend, “The Blessed Hope” and “A Commentary on the Revelation of John” Both are great books. Robert I. Adams also has an excellent commentary book on Revelation called “Revelation Revealed”.