THE CASE FOR A PREWRATH RAPTURE

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In this expository study of Revelation 6, Baruch Korman presents the arguments for a PreWrath Rapture. Revelation 6 reveals that the seals represent persecution and the activity of the enemy, not divine judgment, whereas the seven trumpet and seven bowl judgements are clearly God’s judgements. Korman emphasizes the believer’s calling to endure and remain faithful during the tribulation, even great tribulation. God allows this time to refine His church. We need to trust in God’s redemptive plan in the last days.

Marvin (Marv) Rosenthal was the main populariser of the PreWrath Rapture. Formerly with Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry, he published the seminal book The Pre-Wrath Rapture of the Church in 1990 (Thomas Nelson), which brought the view to a wide audience. He also produced the periodical Zion’s Fire and founded Zion’s Hope. His son, David Rosenthal, continues promoting it through teachings and videos.

More recently, both Nelson Walters (in videos like those on the exact start of God’s wrath and the seal/trumpet/bowl sequence) and Baruch Korman (in his end-times teachings) emphasize the distinction between tribulation and God’s wrath. Korman, teaching from the Hebrew/Greek context, stresses that the Great Tribulation is persecution (not divine wrath), with the rapture occurring before the Day of the Lord judgments begin.

MAJOR SIGN THAT PRECEDES THE RAPTURE

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“Then I looked when the Lamb opened the sixth seal, and a huge earthquake took place; the sun became as black as sackcloth made of hair, and the full moon became blood-red, and the stars in the sky fell to the earth like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when shaken by a fierce wind. The sky was split apart like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved from its place. Then the kings of the earth, the very important people, the generals, the rich, the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains. They said to the mountains and to the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one who is seated on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb, because the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to withstand it?”” (Revelation 6:12–17)

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This podcast is on “The Sixth Seal Sign” of Revelation delivered by Ryan Habbena from last year’s Minnesota Bible Prophecy Conference, May 7–8, 2021

Ryan Habbena does a great job of unpacking the “end times” Scriptures showing that the “celestial signs” as revealed at the sixth seal in the Scripture above, by Jesus in the Olivet discourse, by Joel, by Daniel, and by Paul, is the major sign that precedes the rapture of the Saints, first those dead in Christ, and then those that are alive on this earth.

“Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.