#448 Meeting the Rapture Challenge - Karlo Broussard

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🗓️ 14 September 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Are Christians going to be taken up and out of the world before the big trouble with the anti-Christ begins? Catholics say no, that is a false view of God’s revelation regarding the end times. Our guest, Karlo Broussard takes up a popular Protestant challenge: How can the Catholic Church teach that faithful Christians will experience the final trial when the Bible teaches that Christians will be raptured before such a time? Cy Kellett: Karlo Broussard, apologist here at Catholic Answers. Thanks for being with us for focus. Karlo Broussard: Cy Kellett. Thanks for having me. Cy Kellett: Y…

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0:00.0	We're going to meet a particular challenge.
0:18.6	This one will say it will call meeting the rapture challenge today.
0:23.5	So essentially, we are faced with this challenge.
0:28.3	But essentially, the objection to the Catholic teaching is, Christians are not going to
0:37.4	experience the difficulties of the time of testing at the end of time.
0:43.1	First there will be this rapture.
0:45.8	So how do we meet that challenge?
0:47.5	Yeah.
0:48.5	So that's the articulation of the challenge, which I address in my book, meeting the Protestant
0:53.2	challenge.
0:54.2	The idea is, how can the church teach that Christians who are still alive are actually
0:58.8	going to experience that final trial or push of evil that's initiated by the anti-Christ?
1:05.0	The Catholicism, the Catholic Church teaches that in paragraph 675.
1:08.1	So how can the church teach that when the Bible says otherwise?
1:13.8	So there are some Protestants who will appeal to a particular biblical passage, 1 Thessalonians
1:21.0	chapter 4 verses 15 through 17, and conclude from that passage that Christians who are still
1:29.1	on this earth right before the time of the final tribulation will be snatched up, caught
1:34.1	up in the air with the Lord.
1:36.0	This is known as the pre-tribulation rapture view.
1:40.2	There's a variety of different views, but this is the most popular in the minds of folk
1:45.8	on the street, right?
1:46.8	Yeah.
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