Meeting more than 50,000 Catholic charismatics in Rome’s Olympic Stadium, Pope Francis admitted he was not always comfortable with the way they prayed, but he knelt onstage as they prayed for him and over him by singing and speaking in tongues. “In the early years of the charismatic renewal in Buenos Aires, I did not have much love for charismatics,” the pope said June 1. “... »
To me, being in the Father’s house for 7 days (years) supports a pre-trib rapture. Thoughts? Jesus is following the Jewish betrothal sequence to a T: Unlike Western marriage practices, the Jewish marriage has a greater degree of formalism involving numerous steps: Jewish marriage included a number of steps: first, betrothal (which involved the prospective groom’s traveling from his father’s house ... »
David K. Hebert, Master of Arts in Theological and Historical Studies The Rapture of the Church: A Doctrine of the Early Church or a Recent Development of the Dispensational Movement? Larry Hart, Ph.D. This thesis investigated whether the doctrine of the premillennial, pretribulation Rapture of the Church, as a separate event from Jesus’ second coming, originated in the early Church or with the Di... »
David K. Hebert, Master of Arts in Theological and Historical Studies The Rapture of the Church: A Doctrine of the Early Church or a Recent Development of the Dispensational Movement? Larry Hart, Ph.D. This thesis investigated whether the doctrine of the premillennial, pretribulation Rapture of the Church, as a separate event from Jesus’ second coming, originated in the early Church or with the Di... »