Hello John and Doves,

 

This week I received an email from Prophecy Watchers titled, "Ten Clear Pre-Trib Rapture Statements Have Been Found!"  

 

Here is the link:  https://prophecywatchers.com/ten-clear-pre-trib-rapture-references-from-ephraim-the-syrian-by-lee-brainard/  This is at the prophecywatchers.com website.

 

In this article, the author, Lee Brainard, lists The Ten Ephraim Passages  (Ephraim was a Syrian) - "Here are the ten clear pretribulation rapture statements which I discovered.  They are a strong addition to the body of evidence already garnered which demonstrates that pretribulationism was taught by many of the early fathers.

 

Ephraim uses terminology that describes the "deliverance that we experience in the rapture:  flying off in the clouds while the unsaved are left in the great tribulation, not see the tribulation, delivered from the tribulation, not even hear of the terrors of the tribulation, delivered from the wrath, not tried by the judgment, and taken out (removed) before the coming fear....He understood that the rapture delivered the church from both the wrath of God and the time of the antichrist.  These two things occupied the same time span."

https://prophecywatchers.com/ten-clear-pre-trib-rapture-references-from-ephraim-the-syrian-by-lee-brainard/

 

 

This is a very good article for support of a pre-trib Rapture being taught by the early church.

 

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!

 

Maranatha!

 

Chance