Responding to Rapture Objections

2022 Calvary Chapel Southwest Pastors and Leaders Conference

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5 Robert Furrow: Responding to Rapture Objections

Calvary Tucson Church with Robert Furrow

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0:00 Introduction

5:22 2 Timothy 2:24-26 - A servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all

8:57 Prophecy is taken literally when they can

12:07 A distinction between Israel and the Church

17:11 Believe in the imminent return of Christ

18:10 That God is going to work with Israel again

18:33 God works through dispensations

22:10 The difference between the rapture and the second coming

22:30 A distinction between God's wrath and Satan’s wrath

24:29 Objection #1: 2 Thessalonians 2:1-4 says the man of sin will be revealed before the rapture

27:47 Objection #2: The word rapture is not in the Bible

29:11 Objection #3: The rapture is mentioned in Matthew 24 after the return of Christ

30:45 At the rapture, believers meet the Lord in the air (1 Thessalonians 4:17). At the second coming, believers return with the Lord to the earth (Revelation 19:14)

30:58 The second coming occurs after the great and terrible tribulation (Revelation chapters 6-19). The rapture occurs before the tribulation (1 Thessalonians 5:9; Revelation 3:10)

31:10 The rapture will be secret and instant (1 Corinthians 15:50-54). The second coming will be visible to all (Revelation 1:7; Matthew 24:29-30)

31:58 The rapture is imminent; it could take place at any moment (Titus 2:13;

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; 1 Corinthians 15:50-54)

32:20 Objection #4: There are saints in the tribulation period so the church could not be raptured

33:56 Jeremiah 30:7 - A time of Jacob's trouble

34:19 Objection #5: The whole Tribulation period is not the wrath of God

35:10 Objection #6: The last trumpet is the seventh trumpet of Revelation

37:01 Objection #7: The 2 Thessalonians 1 argument (2 Thessalonians 1:6-8; Revelation 6:9-11)

38:54 Objection #8: The Daniel argument

40:01 Objection #9: The Darby argument