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- Since the event that Paul said that the Church would definitely
see, that is, the man of lawlessness declaring himself to be God in
the temple, occurs at the midpoint of the seven year period, is it
possible that the church will be raptured at the start of the period?
- Yes.
- No. The most common "theory" of the "rapture" is
that the church will be taken at the beginning of the seven-year
period. This is called the "pretribulation rapture theory" and
this cannot be true. God's plan is not subject to what people think,
or how many think that way, but to what is already written. God
will do what he said he would do. We must try to understand the
one thing that agrees with every passage in the Bible. In the passage
from Thessalonians Paul clearly and plainly says that the church
will see the sign that occurs at the midpoint of the week, so it
is impossible for the church to be taken at three and a half years
before this sign.
No.
- This is the right answer. See (a.) above.
