Lord willing, I expect this coming week to be my first real vacation in a while. IC, his lovely wife and Yours Truly plan to spend it with a bunch of fellow believers on an island in northern Ontario, enjoying great food, exceptional Christian fellowship and likely a few pestilent insects so we don’t forget we live in a fallen world. I usually take my laptop along on such excursions, but knowing my own patterns when away, I don’t expect to do much writing on it.
Thankfully, we have well over a decade’s worth of daily posts to draw on, and I thought we might do another themed week in my absence. In 2016, we did Worship Week and in 2017, a Best of IC Week. This time around, I thought we might try …
… Rapture Week. The subject seems appropriate, not least because we’ll be studying 1 Thessalonians together on the island.
The word of God presents the teaching about the return of Christ for his saints, both dead and alive, in language sufficiently plain to distinguish it from his return to deliver the remnant of Israel from its enemies and to set up his thousand-year kingdom on this planet. Nevertheless, despite Paul’s obvious effort to be crystal clear on the subject, large numbers within Christendom believe the doctrine of the rapture originated not in the writings of apostle Paul in the mid-first century, but in England in the last few hundred years. This is simply not the case, as we seek to demonstrate in at least one of this week’s seven rapture-themed posts.
Enjoy, critique and consider.
Love in Christ,
Tom
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