. http://wiki.keithl.com/TheRaptureExposed == The Rapture Exposed == === The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation === === Barbara R. Rossing, 2004, 236.9 ROS 2004 === . Harvard/Yale grad [[ https://lstc.edu/academics/emeritus/barbara-rossing/ | Rossing ]] taught New Testament at the Lutheran School of Theology of Chicago . Her goal for this book is to replace [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_Behind | Left Behind ]] distortion and bigotry with hopeful Christian ethics .p001 '''Ch01 The Destructive Racket of Rapture''' .p007 Interior Secretary [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_G._Watt | James G. Watt ]] "use it or lose it", chief preoccupation is counting down to earth's violent end. .p007 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Coulter | 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 ... [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manichaeism | Manicheism ]] .p013 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_L._Moody | Dwight L. Moody ]] shipwreck analogy ... theology of despair .p014 ''Left Behind'' mentality ... only born-again individuals matter. .p016 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther | 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 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliny | Pliny the Younger ]] to [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trajan | Trajan ]] Christians "pledge themselves by an oath not to engage in any crime ... pay their legal debts' .p019 '''Ch02 The Invention of Rapture''' .p020 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapture | 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 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Nelson_Darby | John Nelson Darby ]] invented rapture and seven year tribulation, NOT BIBLICAL .p023 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Miller_(preacher) | William Miller ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh-day_Adventist_Church | Seventh Day Adventists ]] .p023 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispensationalism | dispensationalism ]] .p023 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._I._Scofield | Cyrus I. Scofield ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scofield_Reference_Bible | Scofield Reference Bible ]] with dispensationalist annotations and text changes .p024 dispensationalist [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_Theological_Seminary | Dallas Theological Seminary ]] .p024 dispensationalist bible rewrites claimed the only system making sense of contradictory bible passages .p026 The desolation and abomination in [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Daniel | 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 [[ https://zenit.org/2003/06/24/illinois-bishops-statement-on-left-behind-books-and-videos/ | 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 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Boyer_(historian) | 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 [[ https://cpt.org/about | Christian Peacemaker Team ]] .p060 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Institute | Temple Institute ]] tiny minority of Messianic Jews support temple rebuilding .p061 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gershom_Gorenberg | Gershom Gorenberg ]] [[ https://www.amazon.com/End-Days-Fundamentalism-Struggle-Temple/dp/0756753864 | End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount ]] .p062 Palestinian Christians don't even exist for dispensationalists .p062 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabeel_Ecumenical_Liberation_Theology_Center | 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 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitri_Raheb | Mitri Raheb ]] ''I Am a Palestinian Christian'' 1995 [[ https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S152C628110 | 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 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse | apocalypse ]] means "unveiling" .p082 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Himmelfarb | Martha Himmelfarb ]][[ https://search.worldcat.org/title/9082823 | Tours of Hell 1983]] .p084 [[ | ]] .p085 [[ | ]] .p086 [[ | ]] .p087 [[ | ]] .p088 [[ | ]] .p090 [[ | ]] .p090 [[ | ]] .p091 [[ | ]] .p092 [[ | ]] .p093 [[ | ]] .p093 [[ | ]] .p095 [[ | ]] .p096 [[ | ]] .p097 [[ | ]] .p097 [[ | ]] .p098 [[ | ]] .p103 '''Ch05 The Journey Begins''' .p105 [[ | ]] .p106 [[ | ]] .p107 [[ | ]] .p108 [[ | ]] .p109 '''Ch06 Lamb Power''' .p109 [[ | ]] .p111 [[ | ]] .p111 [[ | ]] .p115 '''Ch07 Nonviolence''' .p117 [[ | ]] .p118 [[ | ]] .p119 [[ | ]] .p119 [[ | ]] .p123 '''Ch08 The Exodus Story in Revelation''' .p127 [[ | ]] .p128 [[ | ]] .p130 [[ | ]] .p131 [[ | ]] .p133 [[ | ]] .p123 '''Ch09 Hijacking the Lamb''' .p136 [[ | ]] .p136 [[ | ]] .p137 [[ | ]] .p139 [[ | ]] .p139 [[ | ]] .p141 '''Ch10 Rapture In Reverse''' .p141 [[ | ]] .p142 [[ | ]] .p144 [[ | ]] .p145 [[ | ]] .p148 [[ | ]] .p149 [[ | ]] .p159 '''Ch11 The Journey Outward''' .p171 '''Epilogue DEBUNKING THE RAPTURE BY VERSE'''