This is a repost with permission from www.prewrathrapture.com. The Original Article was published by Alan Kurschner on 03/14/2010 at 1:19 am. To read the original article follow this link HERE.

If it Looks Like the Rapture, Quacks Like the Rapture...it Probably is the Rapture



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Pretribulationists and Preterists claim that Jesus and Paul are not speaking about the same coming (parousia) in their end-time teachings. The preterists maintain this because their system requires that the coming that Jesus refers to is the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70. The pretribulationist system requires that Jesus is not speaking about a coming that applies to the Church that begins with the rapture, since that would mean that the Church would be persecuted by Antichrist.

Both of those interpretations are convoluted at best. The prewrath position says, "Let's compare Jesus and Paul's teaching and see if they are consistently talking about the same event." And sure enough, the natural comparison above does leads to the conclusion that the 20 plus parallels between their respective teachings is overwhelming: Jesus and Paul are speaking of the same singular future coming. If this was any other doctrine such as the deity of Christ, this would not even be up for debate. But because tradition is very strong in some quarters, it prevents others from seeing the obvious.