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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

• p020 Rapture a principle invented 170 years ago, word not found in the Bible

• p021 "Most Christian churches and biblical scholars condemn Rapture theology as a distortion of Christian faith with little biblical basis:" Lutherans, evangelicals, Catholics, Presbyterians

• p022 John Nelson Darby invented rapture and seven year tribulation, NOT BIBLICAL

• p023 William Miller Seventh Day Adventists

• p023 dispensationalism

• p023 Cyrus I. Scofield Scofield Reference Bible with dispensationalist annotations and text changes

• p024 dispensationalist Dallas Theological Seminary

• p024 dispensationalist bible rewrites claimed the only system making sense of contradictory bible passages

• p026 The desolation and abomination in Daniel was a Zeus statue desecrating the Jewish temple in 168 B.C., Darby claimed it was future prophesy instead

• p027 a multi-kiloyear gap invented to insert Rapture prophesy into Greek or Hebrew texts
• p028 Dispensationalism directly contradicts Peter's scripture in Acts 2
• p032 Rapture is not the same as resurrection in Christian theology
• p032 ancient creeds declare Jesus will come again; none describe him returning twice or in two stages

• p035 Tribulation is happening to God's people now, God saves us by being with us in this world

• p036 biblical Rapture chronology "unclear" because it was fabricated in the 1830s

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

• p037 early Christians were the people who suffered the tribulations described in Revelation, not some fabricated seven year period thousands of years later
• p040 for decades, Lindsey "updated" John's vision to replace old contemporary events with new events

• p045 Paul Boyer https://www.chronicle.com/article/john-darby-meets-saddam-hussein-foreign-policy-and-bible-prophecy/

• p047 Ch03 The Rapture Script for the Middle East

• p051 No passage in the New Testament requires a Jewish state for Jesus' return

• p053 Christian Peacemaker Team

• p060 Temple Institute tiny minority of Messianic Jews support temple rebuilding

• p061 Gershom Gorenberg End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount

• p062 Palestinian Christians don't even exist for dispensationalists

• p062 Palestinian Liberation Theology Center Sabeel

• p064 they do not fit Darby's end-time prophecy
• p073 Zionists: God save us from these people
• p073 author's Evangelical Lutheran Church of America repudiated Martin Luther's anti-Jewish writings

• p077 Mitri Raheb I Am a Palestinian Christian 1995 Multco Offsite

• p079 Revelation 22.:2 Healing Tree of Life, most powerful image
• p080 amazing vision of the tree of life and its healing for the world

• p081 Ch04 Prophecy and Apocalypse

• p081 apocalypse means "unveiling"

• p082 Martha HimmelfarbTours of Hell 1983

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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