The Rapture, the Tribulation, and the Second Coming of Christ [Audio Version]

This book will attempt to discuss and defend perhaps the most difficult and most challenging parts of the scriptures by looking at the Rapture of the Church, at the Great Tribulation, and at the Second Coming of Jesus. Those are items of interest to almost every person alive. But there are also probably just as many viewpoints about those events as there are people. So this book will begin at the beginning by suggesting that the literal approach for interpreting those future events is probably superior to trying to interpret them figuratively or in some other non-literal fashion. The position of this text is that the events will literally happen at some point in the future. So everything about them in this text will be presented based upon that belief.After the first chapter, which will present the rationale for interpreting the end-time events literally, chapter two will present seven arguments and provide multiple scripture references that seem to support a literal Rapture of the Church. Such passages as Jeremiah 30:7-9, I Corinthians 15:52-54, Revelation 20:11-15, and many others will be used during those arguments. Then in chapter three, nine reasons for believing that the Rapture will occur before the Tribulation will be given. Once again, numerous scripture references will be used in support of those discussions. Then some other administrative matters to be considered after that will be the Judgment Seat of Christ, Daniel's seventy weeks prophecy, the setting on the earth just before and just after the Rapture, and the first appearance of the Antichrist. All of those details will be discussed before looking at the appropriate chapters in the book of Revelation.Then in chapters eight through eighteen, the seven seal judgments, the seven trumpet judgments, and the seven vial judgments will be discussed. Along with those judgments, themselves, will be discussions about everything else that will be happening at the same time as those judgments. As will be seen in those intervening chapters, a lot will be happen