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Rapture: The End-Times Error That Leaves the Bible Behind
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Average Rating:  out of 29 Reviews
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $12.00
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Manufacturer: Sophia Institute Press
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EAN (European Article Number): 9781928832720
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David B. Currie
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Publisher: Sophia Institute Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 236.9
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Publication Date: 2003-09
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Reading Level: 528
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Description: Author David Currie grew up conviced that one day all true Christians will suddenly be snatched up to heaven. The unfortunate souls left behind by this "rapture" will endure seven horrible years of tribulation, at the end of which Christ will return to earth for a glorious thousand-year reign. Today, millions accept this end-times theology, assuming — as Currie did — that the Bible clearly teaches it. Many plan their lives around it. But, after studying Scripturefor decades, Currie has come to see that accepting the Bible means rejecting the rapture. In this remarkable book — the world's most careful and thorough scriptural study of the rapture — Currie demonstrates why. He considers all the relevant verses ( there are hundreds!) and examines them in the light of ancient history, the writings of the earliest Christians, and the claims of the rapturist theologians. With painstaking thoroughness, he unlocks the meaings of key biblical prophecies that culminate in Christ's Messianic Kingdom— including those verses in Daniel, Matthew, and Revelation that rapturists turn to most. Marshaling evidence as startling as it is compelling, Currie argues that these prophecies of war and tribulation don't point to some still-unrealized apocalyptic future. Rather, most of them were fulfilled long ago: the spiritual, priestly Kingdom prefigured in the Old Testament was inaugurated on Calvary, consumated in 70 A.D. with the destruction of the Temple, and continues to exist today...the Catholic Church! That surprise you. Yet, as Currie shows, it's the only conclusion that fits all the scriptural and historical evidence. Rapture: The End-Times Error that Leaves the Bible Behind makes Scripture, prophecy, and history come alive; and it demonstrates that if you open your Bible, you'll find that God's plan for the future of the world is not filled with darkness and disaster, but with light, mercy, and hope.
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Customer Reviews
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Review Summary: Where did the rapture doctrine come from? |
Date: 2008-12-05 |
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Details: Currie is correct about the fact that the Apostle Paul did not expressly teach the rapture. The truth is the apostles did not preach on the coming of the Lord much at all. They just taught to be ready for when Christ returns. So where did the rapture teaching come from? The answer will shock you. Jesus Christ told his disciples that when you see the antichrist to not return to your homes, but to flee to the mountains. Why? Because he said when the antichrist is revealed in the same night or day, two shall be in the field and one shall be taken and the other will remain. This is not a parable or illustration. This is a prophetic statement by Christ recorded three times in Luke and twice in Matthew. The disciples asked where will they be taken and Christ responded wheresoever the carcas is there will the eagles be gathered. Then he said many shall come from the east and the west and sit down in the kingdom of God with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness where there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. This is the rapture of the church. All of the parables of Christ which depict a negligence setting apply before the tribulation. Christ gives us a snapshot of what happens when he returns as a thief in the night in Revelation 2 and 3, where he gives us a preview as if he were to come at the time Revelation was written. Very little has changed. There is no resurrection or coming in glory referred to in the judgment to these churches, but there is a casting out into the tribulation and a promise of being kept from the tribulation to the Philadelphia Church. Laodicea gets puked into the tribulation unless they start over and repent. This is the Word of our Lord Jesus Christ. My name is Steven A. Janda. I am the author of Ready or Not, Here I Come, written in 2008. |
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Review Summary: Great Book |
Date: 2008-05-02 |
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Details: It seems like many protestants have trouble believing that any Catholic doctrines can possibly be true. Many protestants (and I am one) have rejected the clear, historic view of the book of Revelation and have gone chasing after Jack Van Impe and Hal Lindsey foolishness. This book can bring both Catholics and Protestants back to reality after all of the confusion caused by the "Left Behind" nonsense. |
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Review Summary: Better grasp of biblical interpretation |
Date: 2007-09-16 |
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Details: This is a long book, and as detailed as it gets, into the problem of the end times. No matter what your take on that subject, this book will answer many of your questions. Certainly it gives a thorough background into the way the early Christians interpreted the end times.
The gist of Currie's argument centers around what happened in 70 AD, which is frequently overlooked by other interpretations.
Jesus, in the Olivet discourse, very clearly promised that "this generation" (Matt 24) would not pass away before they had seen many signs and events. C S Lewis called the Olivet discourse, "'certainly the most embarrassing verse in the bible'" (p148).
Unless you take Jesus at his word. Then, as Currie painstakingly explains, those words are full filled when the Romans, in 70 AD, burned the temple to the grounds. This was exactly the way that Origen, Clement of Alexandria, and Eusebius interpreted his words.
The history and background of biblical interpretation are worth the price of the book. |
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Review Summary: Yes and No |
Date: 2007-05-01 |
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Details: It is necessary to take a leap of faith to in order to fully accept Christian doctrine.
There has always been within Christendom that group which does (take a leap of fatih) and that group (Apologists) that do not. This is NOT a Catholic v Protestant division.
This book is written from the Apologist point of view. I give it a three star rating for the research but do accept its conclusions. However it does contain some valid criticisms.
Evangelicals fall into error when their faith becomes presumption.
Regarding end times eschatology - no time table should calculated (and the instruction not to do this appears in Scripture) - that is the error -the mistake that many Evangelicals make.
It is not an error to believe by faith in the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
For decades Christian Apologists taught that the prophesized rebirth of Israel was intended as a spiritual metaphor nothing more.
Well we all know what happened in 1948.
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Review Summary: Fantastic |
Date: 2007-01-30 |
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Details: Absolutely fantastic - best book on end times I've read, and I've read a lot. |
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