Will the Church be raptured before the Great Tribulation or at another time?

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   Tank4uposted 14 years ago

   Will the Church be raptured before the Great Tribulation or at another time?
   
   I am a sort of in between concerning this topic, but I lean toward a post tribulation rapture of the church. What are your thoughts on this subject?

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   MomintheMiddleposted 14 years ago

   Protestants, if that is what you are asking about, believe that the Rapture will occur before the Great Tribulation. An expert on the protestant view is Hal Lindsey and I recommend his book "The Late Great Planet Earth" and another fine series of protestant fiction books about the subject are the Left Beind series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. Roman Catholics do not take such a literal view, or if they do they do not talk about it so much.

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   Hxprofposted 14 years ago

   The rapture occurs when Christ comes back at the end of the Great Tribulation.  This was the accepted view of virtually all the saints in the church until the mid 1800s.  The doctrine of a 'rapture' before or in the middle of the Great Tribulation is nowhere to be found in scripture.

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   ShadowKing!posted 12 years ago

   Hxprof is right according a biblical viewpoint. Hal Lindsey isn't to be trusted. He has made failed predictions of Christ's return. I have a hub coming out soon called "The Misconception of Armageddon" and it shows through Bible verses that the GT is preceded by the return of Jesus.
   
   I should have it debuting around the 23rd of Jan (2012).

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      searchinsanyposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      I used to study this topic along with other teachings peculiar to Dispensationalism, and have now come to the conclusion that the Great Tribulation took place prior to AD 70! I have written Hubs on the ‘rapture’ and other 'end times' topics that may

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