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The Rapture Exposed

The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation

Barbara R. Rossing, 2004, 236.9 ROS 2004

  • Harvard/Yale grad Rossing taught New Testament at the Lutheran School of Theology of Chicago

  • Her goal for this book is to replace Left Behind distortion and bigotry with hopeful Christian ethics

  • p001 Ch01 The Destructive Racket of Rapture

  • p007 Interior Secretary James G. Watt "use it or lose it", chief preoccupation is counting down to earth's violent end.

  • p007 Anne Coulter's 'God:' "Take it. Rape it. It's yours.""

  • p009 Genesis 8:21 "I will never again curse the ground because of humankind ... nor will I ever again destroy every living creature as I have done."
  • p010 The Bible's message is not that "God so loved the world that he sent World War III"

  • p012 "Beam me up" theology ... Manicheism

  • p013 Dwight L. Moody shipwreck analogy ... theology of despair

  • p014 Left Behind mentality ... only born-again individuals matter.

  • p016 Martin Luther: "If I knew the word were going to end tomorrow I would plant a tree"

    • apocryphal, first quoted by Martin Schloemann(?) in the 1940's?

  • p017 Pliny the Younger to Trajan Christians "pledge themselves by an oath not to engage in any crime ... pay their legal debts'

  • p019 Ch02 The Invention of Rapture

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  • p036 ref23 p189 Illinois Bishops' Statement on "Left Behind" Books and Videos

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  • p047 Ch03 The Rapture Script for the Middle East

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  • p082 Ch04 Prophecy and Apocalypse

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  • p103 Ch05 The Journey Begins

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  • p109 Ch06 Lamb Power

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  • p115 Ch07 Nonviolence

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  • p123 Ch08 The Exodus Story in Revelation

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  • p123 Ch09 Hijacking the Lamb

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  • p141 Ch10 Rapture In Reverse

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  • p159 Ch11 The Journey Outward

  • p171 Epilogue DEBUNKING THE RAPTURE BY VERSE

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