Revelation 19

Revelation 15-19: The Bowls, Babylon and Armageddon

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Laying Out Revelation – Part 7

Here we restart the chronological order that was broken in Revelation 11, when the Seventh Trumpet was blown. In this section, we see the wrath of God poured out of bowls, the identity and fall of Babylon, Armageddon and our goal – the First Resurrection and the Rapture.

As always, there is a lot to get wrong, so we’ll try not to do that as we attempt to correct the errors that have afflicted our interpretation of this book for almost 2000 years.

So, let’s dig in…

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Bad Eschatology, Part 3 – The Pretribulation Rapture

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My favorite pastors believe in a pretribulation rapture. I currently attend a church that holds to a pretrib eschatology. So, my disagreement with this view is no reflection upon anyone’s faithfulness to God. In fact, I normally like pretribbers more than post-tribbers.

However, as your brother in Christ, I am required to point out where you get things wrong, especially if such errors put you in harm’s way.

Just remember what I wrote last week about our tendency to blindness. We are all vulnerable to error, and it’s hard to undo the mistakes that we were taught.

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