The document discusses the timing of the rapture according to the Pre-Wrath view. It summarizes that: 1) The Pre-Wrath view believes the rapture will occur after the Abomination of Desolation mentioned in Daniel 9:27, but before the wrath of God begins as outlined in Revelation. 2) Key passages in Matthew 24, 1 Thessalonians, and 2 Thessalonians are presented as paralleling this view that Christians will be delivered from the coming wrath. 3) Revelation 6 is analyzed to argue that the seals prior to the sixth do not constitute God's wrath, and the sixth seal marks the beginning of His wrath from which believers will be

1. Return of
Christ
Biblical Keys to
Interpretation,
A Pre-Wrath
View

2. 24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to
finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation
for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision
and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment
to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven
weeks, and threescore and two weeks (7+62 =69): the street shall be built again,
and the wall, even in troublous times.
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for
himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the
sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war
desolations are determined.
27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week (70th week): and in
the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and
for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the
consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Daniel 9:24-27

3. Daniel’s 70 Weeks
Daniel 9:24-27, 70 sevens are prophesied to bring about God’s
judgment and the consummation of Messiah’s Kingdom, each 7
is seven years.

4. Daniel’s 70 Weeks
Daniel 9:26 after the 69th week (first seven plus
62) the Messiah will be cut off

5. Daniel’s 70 Weeks
Daniel 9:27 A final seven will pass which includes the
Abomination of Desolation. Jesus said In Matthew 24
that this Abomination of Desolation will occur at the
end of the age.

6. Daniel’s 70 Weeks
Daniel 9:27 The Abomination of Desolation occurs at
the midpoint of the 70th week.

7. Timing of the Rapture

8. Timing of the Rapture
Pre-tribulation Rapture doctrine teaches a rapture
BEFORE the 70th week of Daniel.

9. Timing of the Rapture
Post-tribulation doctrine teaches a rapture AFTER
Daniel’s 70 weeks.

10. Timing of the Rapture
Pre-wrath doctrine teaches a rapture before the wrath of
God begins,

11. Pre-Wrath
• Christ Will return to
gather His Saints Sometime
AFTER the Abomination
of Desolation
• But Before the Wrath of
God begins
• Accompanied by
Preceding Signs

12. Return of
Christ
Matthew 24 is a key to
end times interpretation
Matthew 24 clearly
refers to the gathering of
His saints.
Matthew 24 parallels the
rapture/return teachings
of the Apostle Paul

13. 1 Thess 4:16-17
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with
a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the
trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught
up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in
the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Matthew 24:31
31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a
trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from
the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Return of Christ/Rapture
Matthew 24 parallels

14. 2 Thess 1:7, 10
7 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the
Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his
mighty angels… 10 When he shall come to be
glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them
that believe…in that day.
Matthew 24:31
31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of
a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect
from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the
other.
Return of Christ/Rapture
Matthew 24 parallels

15. Not Coming as a
Thief to Christians
1 But of the times and the seasons,
brethren, ye have no need that I write
unto you.
2 For yourselves know perfectly that the
day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in
the night.
3 For when they shall say, Peace and
safety; then sudden destruction cometh
upon them, as travail upon a woman with
child; and they shall not escape.
4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness,
that that day should overtake you as a
thief.
5 Ye are all the children of light, and the
children of the day: we are not of the
night, nor of darkness.
6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others;
but let us watch and be sober.

16. 2 Thess. 2:1-4
Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled,
neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as
that the day of Christ is at hand.
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall
not come, except there come a falling away first, and that
man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is
called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth
in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
Certain Signs

17. Jesus Reveals
the Signs of His
Return
Matthew 24:3
And as he sat upon the
mount of Olives, the
disciples came unto him
privately, saying, Tell
us, when shall these
things be? and what shall
be the sign of thy
coming, and of the end
of the world?

18. Signs/Sequence
Leading to
Return Matthew 24

19. Raptured
From Wrath
1 Thess 5:9
For God hath not
appointed us to
wrath, but to obtain
salvation by our
Lord Jesus Christ
After declaring that
sudden destruction will
come upon the children of
darkness as a thief in the
night, Paul says we are not
appointed to that wrath
but appointed to be
delivered.

20. Revelation
Six
5th Seal is the martyrdom of the followers of
Christ, slain "for the word of God, and for
the testimony which they held." God does
not execute Saints for their faithfulness.
Martyrs ask when God will begin His
judgment and He answers that it will be a
"little" while, indicating that "His" judgment
has not begun.
As the 6th seal is broken it is declared that
the Wrath of the Lamb is beginning.
Seals 1-5 are not the Wrath of God (though
they are under His divine authority).
The 6th Seal is the signal for the
commencement of Day of the Lord (His
wrath).

21. When will
You return?
Christ answered the
questions about the
signs/timing of His
return and the end of the
age.
The signs/timing do not
change based upon who
He is addressing.

22. The Savior
revealed the
Season Signs
The answer the Messiah gives in
Matthew 24 parallels Paul's
teaching in the Thessalonian
letters and His revelation to John
in chapter 6.
Revelation 6 proves to us that
God’s wrath begins after the 6th
seal, thus marking the point
at which deliverance will
come.

23. Ichetucknee River
Baptist Church, Pastor
JC Hall
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