The End Times Passover

The first fifteen chapters in this book deal primarily with scripture the author believes clearly refute a secret pre-tribulation escape to heaven, and also debunks the assumption that the reign of Christ (after His return) lasts only 1000 years. He will also provide scripture that will refute the notions that a special geopolitical kingdom will be established for Jews in the land we today call Israel, and that the Christian Church is the Bride of Lamb. The next 12 chapters, which will be published in another book (Why Christians Will Suffer "Great Tribulation") deal primarily with the subject of tribulation, its purpose and its impending reality. The author believes the reader will become more enlightened by the scripture-based facts presented in this book, which refute and debunk the many theories that proclaim that the Christian Church will not experience great tribulation because it will supposedly be caught up in a secret escape to heaven flight before The Second Advent of Jesus Christ. The author is convinced that many theorists (intentionally or unwittingly) have twisted and taken out of context much scripture in vain attempts to strengthen their secret escape to heaven theories; but, in this book, the Bible will speak for itself! For example, most pre-tribulation theorists use Luke 17:34-36 to support their theory that at the so-called Rapture, Christians will be taken to heaven and unbelievers will be left behind to suffer God's wrath during the so-called Great Tribulation. However, if the readers will examine the definition of the word taken in these three verses (Luke 17:34, 35, 36,) they will notice that the Greek word for taken is paralambano, which means to take hold of. These three verses above did not use the Greek word harpazo, which is the word used in 1 Thessalonians 4:17 for the snatching process that describes the rapid manner in which called out ones are gathered together to participate at that great meeting with the Lord in the air. This word taken is often used to take hold of something or someone in a hostile manner in many verses in the Bible, such as Matthew 27:27, where Jesus was taken by force by the Governor’s soldiers, and Matthew 4:5, where Jesus was taken by the devil to a high mountain. Whereas theorists interpret the word left as describing those individuals they believe to be the unjust, supposedly those who are left behind to experience God’s wrath, the word left in the Greek is aphiemi, which literally means to forgive. This word aphiemi (forgive) is used twice in the Lord’s Prayer, (Luke 11:4). Yet, thousands of authors, Christian filmmakers, pastors, Bible teachers, preachers and evangelists daily use these verses (Luke 17:34-36) claiming they mean the just will be taken up to heaven and the unjust will be left behind to suffer God’s wrath; when, in fact, these verses have the direct opposite meaning. If anything, the word left (Gr. aphiemi, primarily, to send forth, send away, apo, from, hiemi, to send) denotes to remit or forgive. Luke 11:4 is really telling us that the unjust will be taken (and bound) to experience God’s wrath, a wrath that will literally pass over those who are left. In essence, the just will literally be left alone, not left behind! So in reality, these theorists' interpretations of these verses are reversed. And what they are conveying to their respective flocks is contradictory to the true meaning of the Word of God. This is one of many biblical word comparison and etymologically scrutinized examples that the author presents in The End Times Passover that refute the major tenets of The Rapture theory and its secret escape to heaven mythology. The author has examined the word of God (against a myriad of books written by a great throng of theorists) for over twenty-five years, and began writing this book in 1985. Most of the book was completed before 1990; however, he did not want to ‘put it out’ there until he felt that he had examined the scriptures as clearly and as concisely as he possibly could. He completed the book in 2004, but has been perusing it and making minor editing changes, prompted by his “perfectionist” nature. He now feels the timing (for publishing and presenting it to the public) is right and feels confident that the word of God confirms that the scripture presented herewith will provide clear challenges to most of the major issues contained in the doctrinal myths theorists have perpetrated on the Christian Church. This author believes the work presented herein will also clearly refute the many theories they give proper noun names to, such as The Rapture, The Great (Pre, Mid, Post) Tribulation, The (Pre, Post and A) Millennium, The (Church is the) Bride of Lamb, The Promised Land (is in the Middle East,) and that The Restrainer is The Holy Spirit. The author will also be presenting scripture that refute myths that there will be two and maybe even three Resurrections, two or three Judgments, that Israel is not part of the True Church of God, that God’s true church did not begin until The Day of Pentecost, and many other myths, including that the heavens and the earth will not be restructured anew until 1000 years after The Second Advent. This aspect (new heavens and new earth) is one of (if not) the main keys to understanding one of the most crucial messages being conveyed to us by God in the Bible, which is, that Jesus Christ is God and His eternal Kingdom reign will not be in heaven, but rather it will be on earth longer than 1000 literal years. This new heavens and earth aspect will prove that God’s Holy City, New Jerusalem, comes down to earth much sooner than is perceived by most theologians. The author will be specifically dealing with each and every one of these issues, providing scripture upon scripture that will literally rebut the majority of varying Rapture theories, millennial myths and other dispensational doctrines.