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Jewish Conspiracy 58
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Christian Zionism is primarily a Protestant movement arising from Evangelical and Fundamentalist streams and is invariably associated with, although not exclusively, a Dispensational reading of Biblical history and a Premillennial eschatology.

Evangelicalism was a term first used by Tertullian (160-230), the Carthaginian in his defence of Biblical truth against the heresies of Marcion, which rejected the Old Testament and denied the incarnation of God in Jesus as a human. Martin Luther (1483-1546) also used the term but it was Thomas More (1476-1535) - executed by Henry VIII for opposing his divorce from Catherine of Aragon - who introduced the word to the English language. In 1535, in a vitriolic attack on the English translator of the Bible and Protestant martyr, William Tyndale (1494-1536), More referred to those like Tyndale as "evangelicalles." The Evangelical Doctrines cover a broad spectrum of Protestant theological opinion arising out of the Reformation, Puritanism and Revivalism. Especially:

    • The belief in the supreme authority of Scripture over tradition (sola Scriptura);
    • The belief in the literal interpretation of scripture;
    • Adherence to the historic creeds; the need for a personal faith in Jesus Christ for salvation and holiness;
    • The belief in the imminent, visible and personal return of Jesus Christ.

Western Evangelicalism is a broad church composed of differing interpretations that can conveniently be been simplified into three categories of "right," "centre" and "left" with the most influential of these being the so-called "Evangelical Right." This is also called Fundamentalism or the New Christian Right (NCR) and is especially strong within North American Protestantism under such luminaries as Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Hal Lindsey and Mike Evans. Fundamentalism is a term derived from a series of tracts entitled The Fundamentals published from 1910 onwards by American conservative evangelicals attempting to defend the basis of historic Christianity by repudiating the corrupting influences of 'modernism' and theological liberalism. Curtis Lee Laws, the editor of the Baptist Watchman Examiner, first used the term 'fundamentalism' in 1918 to describe the movement within Baptist circles dedicated to such a position. This uncompromising position has meant enemies of Christian Evangelical Fundamentalism accuse it of exclusivity, intolerance and even anti-Semitism, moreover, both theologically and politically, the most conservative wing of evangelicalism. Its enemies even describe it as essentially an outlet for frustrated ambitions of wrathful evangelicals. Some critics even go as far as to compare some aspects of Fundamentalism to fascism. Fundamentalism, the Evangelical Right or the New Christian Right (NCR) is a powerful social and political force in America due to three important factors:

  • Its near monopoly of Christian satellite, television and radio stations and programmes;
  • Acceptance and promotion of a success oriented "health and wealth" gospel within its charismatic wing;
  • Propensity to provide somewhat simplistic, infallible, Biblical-based panaceas for all the world's problems.

Fundamentalism manifest as the New Christian Right is instinctively and deeply sympathetic to the Zionist State of Israel and Zionism as it is implacably antagonistic toward Communism and Islam. These passionate enemies of Communism and Islam and ardent supporters of Israel are often called Fundamentalist Christian Zionists and are strident in support of the Zionist State established by modern Jews in Palestine on ancient Arab lands. They advocate:

  • The expeditious return or 'restoration' of Jews from around the world to the Zionist State of Israel;
  • The annexation of the entire West Bank by the Zionist State of Israel;
  • Encourage Jews to settle en masse in the Occupied Territories.
  • The return of all embassies to Jerusalem as recognition of that city as the rightful, undivided and eternal capital of the Jews;
  • The building of the Third Jewish Temple and the reinstitution of the priesthood and temple sacrifices as a precursor to the return of the Messiah.

Evangelical and Fundamentalist Christian Zionism has a large and growing literature that has a largely pro-Zionist and pro-Zionist State of Israel sentiment yet set in an apocalyptic scenario. That is, an End Times worldview that warrants the description 'Armageddon Theology.' Moreover, with a theological interpretation of history is known as Premillennial Dispensationalism.

Dispensationalism is a comparatively modern term used to describe the relatively modern belief that biblical history is a number of successive economies or administrations, called Dispensations. Moreover, that each Dispensation testifies to the continuity of the Old Testament covenants Yahweh made with His Chosen People through Abraham, Moses and King David. Thus, Dispensationalism is an interpretative or narrative framework that attempts to explain the overall flow of the Bible. It is contrasted with an opposing interpretation called Supersessionism or Covenant Theology (or as Replacement Theology by its critics). This opposing theology teaches that the Christian Church has been established for the salvation of "the Jews first, and also to the Gentiles" and that there is one people of God joined in unity through Jesus Christ. Moreover, because the Jews have largely refused to accept Christ, have shown a historic enmity to His Being and Mission and have rejected Him as Messiah and Saviour, they are damned. In contrast, Dispensationalism teaches that the Christian Church is a "parenthesis" in God's dealings with the Jews, when the Gospel began to go to the Gentiles instead of the Jews, but that God's continued favour of the Jews will be revealed after the Church Age (or Dispensation), when the Jews will be "restored" to their ancient and Promised Land and will come to know Jesus as their Messiah. Hence, Dispensationalists typically believe in a Jewish restoration.

Two nineteenth century men, Scottish divine, William Kelly Edward Irving (1792-1834), founder of the Catholic Apostolic Church, and Anglo-Irish theologian John Nelson Darby (1800-82), are regarded as the fathers of Dispensationalism. It was from Kelly's Premillennial musings upon which Darby's Dispensationalism arose. But, it was the American Cyrus Ingerson Scofield (1843-1921) that brought Irving and Darby's eccentric theology into mainstream Evangelicalism. The justification of Dispensationalism is the crucial text when the Apostle Paul calls upon Timothy to: "... rightly divide the word of truth" (2 Timothy 2:15). Such that Cyrus I Scofield the great propagandiser of Dispensationalism, took it as the title for his first book in which his defence was made of this novel way of "dividing" Scripture into discrete Dispensations. Scofield declared that there were seven distinct eras of God's dealing with man between Creation and the Final Judgement and that these eras, these "dispensations," were a framework around which the message of the Bible could be explained. Thus, following Darby and Scofield, Dispensationalists claim to find in Scripture evidence of seven distinct Dispensations during which mankind has been tested in respect of specific revelation as to the Will of God. These "dispensations," or identifiable, discrete periods, began with Creation and will end, it is claimed by Dispensationalists, in an exclusive "Jewish Kingdom on Earth." Furthermore, in each Dispensation, mankind, including in the sixth dispensation they call "the Church," has failed. also emphasises the distinctions between the "New Testament Church" (i.e. the Christian Church of the Gentile) and ancient "Israel" (which they identify as "the Jews") of the Old Testament.

Although others before Darby and Scofield had used the term "dispensation" to describe the progressive revelation of God's purposes in biblical history, it was Darby and Scofield who emphasised a novel approach by insisting that these "dispensations" were both irreversible and progressive. Moreover, such a Dispensational chronology of historic events was almost unknown before the teachings of Darby and Scofield. Furthermore, publication of the heavily footnoted Scofield Reference Bible (1909) was the first time overtly Dispensationalists notes were added to the pages of the biblical text. This heavily redacted Bible complete with Scofield's notes subsequently and with great alacrity became the leading Bible used by North American Evangelicals and Fundamentalists, and so, it was largely through the influence of Scofield's notes that Dispensationalism and Premillennialism became influential among fundamentalist Christians in the United States. It is now required reading in North American Bible colleges, institutes, and seminaries and is now used extensively by them and by fundamentalist leaders, lay preachers and clergymen of influence. In short: Scofield Reference Bible has became the most significant transmitter of Premillennial Dispensationalism and has prepared the way for Christian Zionism.

Dispensationalism is a peculiar theory whose adherents, Dispensationalists, justify by their a "literalist" approach to Scripture, that is, the literal interpretation of Scriptures, which, to them, reveals all hidden prophetic wisdom to their purview. Modern Dispensationalists (such as Hal Lindsey (b. 1929) "The Father of Apocalyptic Christian Zionism") confidently claim that their interpretation of the Bible shows what will most definitely happen in the future. Critics argue, however, that such an approach, Dispensationalism, with its method of Biblical interpretation (the literalising of the Biblical prophecies) is a very flawed interpretative method that are not only false but also prove to be cruelly disappointing.


Supersessionism or Covenant Theology (sometimes referred to as Replacement Theology by its critics) is the opposing theology of Dispensationalism. that teaches that the Christian Church has been established for the salvation of "the Jews first, and also to the Gentiles" and that there is one people of God joined in unity through Jesus Christ. Moreover, that because the Jews have largely refused to accept Christ, have shown a historic enmity to His Being and Mission and have rejected Him as Messiah and Saviour, they are damned. Supersessionism removes from the modern Jew the special status many of them and their supporters routinely claim, that is, the special status of being God's "Chosen People." Namely, because Jews have denied the divinity of Christ, denied that He is the Messiah, they are not being faithful to the Revelation that Yahweh has given them, and they therefore fall short of their calling as his chosen people. In other words: Christianity is not only the continuation of the Old Testament but also its fulfilment. Consequently, all racial and ethnic divisions and boundaries are ended in Jesus Christ, and faith in Christ unites all peoples into one new body, the Christian Church i.e, those who accept Christ as Saviour are God's "Chosen People."

The Doctrines of Supersessionism reduce to two main types:

  1. Modern Jews are not God's "Chosen People" solely based on race and preserved bloodlines.
  2. Modern Jews are still "Chosen People" but their special status is frustrated, pending their acceptance of Christ as the promised Messiah.

The first, and less common view, accepts that the Yahweh Promises made to the Israelites have become obsolete and invalid and that the Christian Church (including any ethnic Jews who have accepted Christ as Saviour) is God's "Chosen People." That is, a Replacement Theology whereby the Christian Church has replaced "the Jews" as God's "Chosen People."

The second - and more common view - does not offer a full blown Replacement Theology but argues that that unbelieving "Israel" - identified here as the modern Jews - has been superseded in the sense that the Christian Church has, since Christ's Mission on Earth, been entrusted with the fulfilment of the old Yahweh Promises of which "Israel" has been the trustee. Accordingly, even though most modern Jews reject Christ as the Messiah, "the Jews" have been and are forever the "chosen trustee" of the Yahweh Covenants, the Torah Law and the Yahweh Promises of blessing and salvation and the lineage of the Messiah (e.g. Rom. 3:1-2; 9:4). However, even this being so, the Christian Church receives the promised Messiah through unconditional acceptance of Jesus as the Christ and not on the basis of race and inherited bloodlines. Moreover, the Christian Church consists of any who profess that faith in Christ as Messiah - even modern Jews. This state of affairs is summed up by the Apostle Paul thus:

"There is neither Jew nor Greek ... for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise" (Gal 3:28-29) and " That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel" (Eph 3:6).

Thus, according to this form of Supersessionism, both Jews and Gentiles who have FAITH in Christ as Saviour have been united into one people and no one has been REPLACED, rather, faith in Christ has replaced physical lineage and bloodlines as the determining factor for identifying who really are, today, God's "Chosen People" Further, many Christians believe that as the End Times approach and the world's travails become ever more violent many ethnic Jews will accept Christianity before the Second Coming of Christ.


The conception of the Millennial reign of Christ (Millenarianism or Millennialism) given in Revelation 20 lends itself to various literal or figurative, yet mutually exclusive, interpretations; the three most common are Amillennial, Postmillennial, and Premillennial. The two most believed are Premillennialism and Postmillennialism.
Premillennialism is the belief that Christ's physical return in the Second Coming of Christ is the event that initiates the Millennium of Righteousness –the Kingdom of Christ or the Messianic Kingdom- described in the Johannine Apocalypse. Thus, it is not only a literal interpretation of Revelation 20:1-6, which describes Christ's Second Advent and subsequent reign at the end of an apocalyptic period of Tribulation, but also the view that this future age is the fulfilment of the prophetic hope of God's people described in the Old Testament.
Postmillennialism places the Second Coming of Christ at the end of the thousand-year period of righteousness -after the Kingdom of Christ or the Messianic Kingdom. Believers in this argue that the establishment of the Kingdom of God on Earth is a prelude to Christ's actual return. Most Postmillennialists regard the Millennium figuratively and argue that it will be a much longer period of time than 1,000 years. Moreover, it is usually understood that this gradual unfolding has already begun, implying that this Postmillennialists Millennium is a far less dramatic kind of Millennium than that envisioned by the Premillennialists, as well as a more unexpected return of Christ. Consequently, Premillennialism teaches that the ultimate triumph of Good over Evil is a gradual process. That the defeat of the forces of Satan is not due to a cataclysmic showdown - Armageddon - but due to a gradual expansion of the Kingdom of God throughout history up until the Parousia ... the Second Coming of Christ.

Evangelical and Fundamentalist Christian Zionists hold the Premillennialists view and so believe that Christ will return before the Millennium. Key dogmas of the Dispensationalism, of Premillennialism, of Premillennial Dispensationalism are the so-called Rapture and the Tribulation.

And even on this, Premillennialists are themselves divided on the question as to when the so called 'Rapture' will occur. Four distinct, mutually exclusive, positions have and continue to be held, the cause of some rather acrimonious disagreement within Premillennialists circles: the four views on The Rapture are referred to as Pre-Tribulation "pretrib"; Mid-Tribulation "midtrib"; Post-Tribulation "posttrib"; and "amillennial."


"Rapture" is usually understood to describe the state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion, or a state of elated bliss. In certain Protestant theology the term is used to mean "to be caught up, or snatched away," and "to raise from the ground." The Rapture is a peculiar dogma in certain systems of Christian eschatology that teaches that all born-again Christians will simultaneously be taken physically from Earth into Heaven by Jesus Christ and so will be saved from the Great Tribulation that is the fate of all still left on Earth. According to the adherents of the Rapture, the simultaneous transport of the physical bodily ascension of all born-again Christians to join Christ in Heaven will be so sudden and complete that witnesses on Earth will be left aghast wondering where they went. This supposed miraculous event. The Rapture is thus a belief that Christians will suddenly disappear, will be whisked off from the Earth, changed to spirit, and taken to Heaven to be with Christ before the Earth's Great Tribulation.

The Rapture is thus the belief that Jesus Christ will miraculously "snatch" out of harm's way all true-believers who will not suffer as will all the unbelievers, the wicked and the evil in the coming Great Tribulation. Moreover, once all the terrible events that cleanse the Earth are over, these "Raptured Christians" will return to Earth in the Millennial Kingdom - the 1000 year rule of Christ who will reign together with the Resurrected Saints. The concept has been popularised recently by proponents of the Dispensationalists or futurist interpretations of Scripture who point to the contemporary collapse in morality and current world events as indicators that the fulfilment of End Times prophecies is imminent.

There are millions of people who are nominally Christian who have their faith, hope and trust in the God of the Bible wrapped up in a teaching called The Rapture wherein Christians - those who are "saved" - are, in a heartbeat, lifted up from the Earth to Heaven, and thereby escape the great trial coming upon all the Earth - The Tribulation or "Great Tribulation" (Matt. 24:21). Proponents of The Rapture point to Five Scriptures that not only describes it but also gives clear notice of the exact timing of it. The Rapture teachers use these verses as the bedrock of their belief: I Thessalonians 4:13-18; Revelation 4:1; II Thessalonians 2:7; Daniel 12:1 and I Corinthians 15:50-58. There are others, but, these five are the main scriptures used as foundation for the Rapture Doctrine: especially, I Thessalonians 4:13-18. In fact, to the staunch Rapturist, discerning the Rapture Doctrine in the Bible is as simple as finding evidence that Jesus Christ is Messiah. Consequently, proponents of The Rapture Theory dismiss the argument that it is a modish theory not taught by the early Church but arising from nineteenth century theologians. Especially, John N Darby and, especially, that it is based on the alleged prophetic vision of a 15-year old Scottish girl named Margaret Macdonald. They contend that the facts are otherwise. They argue:

An ancient sermon by the prolific Greek Orthodox theologian, Ephraem Syrus phraim the Syrian) who lived and died in the 4th century AD anticipates the modern Rapture Doctrine. Although some scholars claim it is not the work of Ephraem, but of a later theologian written before 700 AD, and others that it was concocted in 1830, others, especially Prophecy scholar and author Grant Jeffrey, conclude it is genuine.
Margaret Macdonald, a 15 year old girl who was a member of Edward Irving's congregation of the Catholic Apostolic Church, who in 1830 had a vision of a Secret Rapture, when Christ descends to Earth to complete His Mission secretly and invisible. An account of which was published in in Robert Norton's Memoirs of James & George Macdonald of Port-Glasgow (1840) and in shorter form, The Restoration of Apostles and Prophets In the Catholic Apostolic Church (1861). If true, then she voiced a post-tribulation Rapture since in her vision the Holy Spirit would protect the Church through the Tribulation. However, this notwithstanding, no biblical scholars or Christian theologians rely on Macdonald's vision to support any view of the Rapture. Furthermore, John Darby declared his pre-tribulation Rapture as early as 1827, three years before Macdonald's vision.

    A number of modern books have been published, especially by Grant Jeffrey, which cite several pre-MacDonald and pre-Darby sources that supposedly describe a Raptured Church.

    All major prophetic authors alive today dealing in Armageddon Theology claim the Word of God as the foundation for their belief in The Rapture.

These are the key verses used to justify the Rapture Theory.

"Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh." (Matt. 25:13).

Here say the Rapturists is Jesus Christ affirming His Second Coming but at a time known only to God.

"And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me" (Job 19:26-27).

Here, say the proponents of The Rapture Theory, is described how "the elect" will be gathered from Earth and miraculously transported to Heaven and worship at the feet of God.

"But in those days, following that distress, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken. At that time men will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory. And he will send his angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the heavens" (Mark 13:24-27)

Here, say the proponents of The Rapture theory, is described the event now called The Rapture. Here described is how "the elect" will be gathered from Earth and miraculously transported to Heaven. This verse also indicates to some commentators that this miraculous event occurs after The Tribulation.


"Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed" (1 Cor. 15:51,52).
Here, say the proponents, is described how The Rapture will transform physical bodies and will occur when the "last trumpet" is sounded; an event also called a "mystery."

    "Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, 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. 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" (2 Thess. 2:1-3).
Here, say the proponents, is the Apostle Paul teaching clearly about The Rapture as here he describes how "the elect" are "gathered to him." Moreover, the two major events cited by the Apostle Paul, which must precede it, have not happened and cannot happen until sometime after The Temple is rebuilt and the Antichrist is then revealed. Hence, say some commentators, the Antichrist will be revealed before The Rapture and "the Saints" will face him.

"And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God, Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned. And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth" (Rev. 11:15-18).
Here, say the proponents, is described how "the seventh trumpet" is the last trumpet when God's wrath begins and "the Saints" are rewarded. Luke 14:14 says "the rewards" will be given out at the "resurrection of the just" i.e. The Rapture. And, immediately before the sounding of "the seventh trumpet":
    "But in the days when the seventh angel is about to sound his trumpet, the mystery of God will be accomplished, just as he announced to his servants the prophets" (Rev. 10:7).
Here, say the proponents, is described, just as in 1 Cor. 15:51,52, how The Rapture event is a "mystery" and how "the last trumpet" is "the seventh one," which means all that is described during the first "six trumpets" will be experienced by the "last generation" of Christians.

"And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years" (Rev. 20:4-6).
Here, say The Rapture proponents, is evidence that the "first resurrection" (i.e. Rapture) will occur after the world-wide persecution of Christians - the Great Persecution - when Christians are "beheaded" for remaining faithful during the reign of the Antichrist.
And so, according to some commentators, The Rapture will occur after The Tribulation and when the faithful, "the elect" face the Antichrist. Also, that "the saints" will face the Antichrist before the "first resurrection" (i.e. Rapture) is confirmed by:
"He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints" (Rev 13:10)
Thus, say The Rapture proponents, there is clear evidence that there will be a Rapture ("a catching up"), as the the Apostle Paul teaches:
    "For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 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: 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" (1 Thess. 4:15-17).

Thus, say the proponents of The Rapture Theory, just like the pieces of a puzzle that can be fit together to form a clear picture, when seemingly disparate verses in Scripture are compared and contrasted they create a crystal clear picture of the coming events called The Rapture.

However, although most adherents to the Rapture Doctrine accept that there is a future event, a a great travail destined to descend on the world, there is contrary opinion on the exact timing of this event and its relation to the miraculous happening, or rather, the sudden disappearance of the faithful they call The Rapture. Adherents to the Rapture Doctrine all agree that a great and terrible war between nations is prophesied that involves, most probably, an all-out nuclear exchange with massive devastation, suffering and death; that Scripture, but especially the Book of Revelation, prophesies this world conflagration, but, when this will happen is the subject of vigorous debate. Thus, there are those who believe "the Rapture Escape" will happen at any time before this terrible time and the faithful will be spared the pains of torture; the "any-moment rapture" adherents: Then, there are those who believe that this "the Rapture Escape" will happen after the Great Travail when the faithful, the children of God, have suffered great hardship and persecution.

In brief, The Rapture is this: it is a supposed future event that will take place when Jesus Christ will come in the air, "catch up the Church from the Earth," and then return to Heaven with "the Church." There are three basic teachings on The Rapture involving its exact timing and it revolves around the prophetic event, a world cleansing, a great travail, called the Tribulation, they are:

      1 Pre-Tribulation Rapture claiming it will happen before The Tribulation period (also called the "any-moment rapture")

      2 Mid-Tribulation Rapture claiming it will happen half-way through The Tribulation period.

      3 Post-Tribulation Rapture claiming it will happen after The Tribulation.


The Tribulation, the "Great Tribulation" (also called "The Day of the Lord") is an event referred to in the New Testament: "For then shall be great tribulation..." (Matt. 24:21) and other passages. It is a time of great travail and devastation in which the wicked are punished and the saintly preserved.The Tribulation is thus an aspect of the End Times and so a subject of Eschatology. Christian Eschatology has an immense and growing body of literature, with an amazing breadth of interpretation, which can be conveniently reduced to three categories: Futurism, Preterism and Historicism.

In the Futurist view, The Tribulation is a future event of relatively short duration wherein believers will experience world-wide persecution but who are purified and strengthened by it. This conception was introduced to the modern Christian Church by John Nelson Darby the originator of Dispensationalism. A view that was championed by Cyrus I Scofield who made it widely accepted through his notes in the Scofield Reference Bible (1909) and by a swathe of Christian Zionist propagandists.
In the Preterist view, The Tribulation was an historic event (affecting the Jewish people rather than all mankind) which took place when Roman legions destroyed Jerusalem and the Second Temple in 70 AD. A view that is growing in influence among certain scholars and theologians
In the Historicist view, The Tribulation is a current event (affecting the Jewish people rather than all mankind) that came upon the Jewish people, beginning in 70 AD when Roman legions destroyed Jerusalem and the Second Temple. The Tribulation, according to some modern historicists, has continued upon the Jews through the centuries since the devastation of Jerusalem, perhaps culminating in the Holocaust, and ending with the "Restoration" of the State of Israel and/or the "return of Jerusalem" to Jewish control. The historicist approach was taken by Martin Luther and John Calvin and it was the view that prevailed among Protestants from the Reformation until the rise of Dispensationalism.
The Futurist view is a future event and coupled with Dispensationalism are the main components of the Christian Zionist apocalyptic eschatology, sometimes called "Armageddon Theology." In the Futurist view, The Day of the Lord and The Great Tribulation constitute a Earth cleansing period of 7 years. A time so terrible, so devastating and so complete in its intended effects that it is unparalleled in human history (Matt. 24:21, Mark 13:19, Amos 5:18, Zeph. 1:14-18, Dan. 12:1, Joel 2:1-2, 11, II Peter 3:10-12). But, Christ's true followers are saved this terrible event and are called up into Heaven and so protected from this terrible day of the Earth's cleansing: while the undeserving, the profane, the ungodly, the wicked and the iniquitous will stay in religious "Babylon."
Thus, The Tribulation, the "Great Tribulation," is the period when God will purge and purify the "144,000 elect Israelites," and prove the "saved" from among the Gentiles, all of whom will be martyred for their faith in Christ. Those who do not surrender their lives are the "lost" who will be made a sacrifice to "the fowls of the air and beasts of the field."

There are three basic teachings on The Rapture:

      1 Pre-Tribulation rapture claiming it will happen before The Tribulation period.

      2 Mid-Tribulation rapture claiming it will happen half-way through The Tribulation period.

      3 Post-Tribulation rapture claiming it will happen after The Tribulation.


Pre-Tribulationism is the oldest and original position held by Dispensationalists and so was the view held by men such as John N Darby, Cyrus I Scofield and the early Dispensationalists such as Lewis Sperry Chafer (founder of the Dallas Theological Seminary in 1924) and Charles Caldwell Ryrie (born 1925). Hence, Ryrie describes Pre-Tribulationism as "normative dispensational eschatology" [and] a regular feature of classic dispensational premillennialism." In other words, virtually all Dispensationalists are also Pre-Tribulationists. Thus, those who hold this position are called Pre-Tribulationists Premillennialists because the believe that Christ will return at any moment to secretly 'Rapture' the Church before the great cleansing of the Earth called The Tribulation begins. Then, after seven years of Tribulation, Christ will return with His saints to overcome and vanquish the Antichrist and his dark, satanic forces and establish God's Millennial Kingdom on Earth. Examples of modern exponents of this brand of End Times theology, of the "end of the world as we know it at any time" apocalypse, are Harold Lee "Hal" Lindsey (b. 1929) and Timothy F LaHaye (b. 1926). Thus, LaHaye:

    "Are you ready for Christ's return? Do you believe that at any instant you could find yourself hurtling through the skies to meet your Lord face to face? Are you confident that God will spare you and your loved ones the horrifying judgment of the Tribulation... Are you living your life as if each moment could be your last on earth?" No Fear of the Storm, Why Christians Will Escape All the Tribulation (1992).

Thus, all Pre-Tribulation Rapturists believe that "the faithful," "the elect," "the Church" will be removed before the advent of the Antichrist and the Great Tribulation.

But, schisms threatened the United Premillennial Movement even as it began. For, alternative views of the chronology of The Tribulation were already present in North American Evangelicalism, which emerged during the Niagara Bible Conferences (1883-97) where groups of influential Bible scholars met to established the principles of Christian fundamentalism. This caused considerable internal division within Dispensational circles and came to be known as the "Rapture-Rupture."

Mid-Tribulationists
assert that Christians will experience the first half of the Tribulation (that is 3 1/2 years of persecution) and then at the midpoint of the Tribulation they will be Raptured. This position is derived from reading of Daniel 7:25 and Revelation 12:4:

    "And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time" (Dan. 7:25)

Especially with reference to the phrase: "time and times and the dividing of time" rendered as "time, times and half a time," which is taken to mean a period of three and a half years of Tribulation, before the Rapture.

Post-Tribulationists believe the Church will experience seven years of Tribulation before Christ returns. They regard the references to the suffering of the "saints" in Revelation as referring to Christians and not Jews who have come to believe in Messiah after the church has been Raptured. This position is held by classical Premillennialists but not Dispensationalists.

Pre-Wrath Tribulationists believe that the seven year period of the Great Tribulation during which the Antichrist will arise (also known as the "seventieth week" of Daniel 9:24-27) must be separated into three not two. According to this interpretation the Bible teaches that there are three major sections to the "seventieth week": the "beginning of sorrows" (Matt. 24:8), the "Great Tribulation" (Matt. 24:21), and the "Day of the Lord" (Matt. 24:30-31). This very modern interpretation was promulgated by Marvin J Rosenthal executive director of Zion's Hope, executive director of The Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry, founder of The Holy Land Experience, a living biblical museum in Orlando, Florida, editor of the journals, Israel, My Glory and Zion's Fire dealing with "Israel," the prophetic Word, Bible teaching and

   
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