Benny Hinn and the Great Catching Up (Hank Unplugged Short)

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🗓️ 25 August 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Hank Hanegraaff, president of the Christian Research Institute and host of the Bible Answer Man broadcast, responds to a recent tweet and video by Benny Hinn. According to Hinn, the Lord spoke to him, saying he needs to talk to his audience about the great catching up. And that his teaching about the rapture is timely because this event is nearly upon us. Popularized by John Nelson Darby in the nineteenth century, the pre-tribulational rapture theory contends that God has two distinct people and two distinct plans for their two distinct destinies. The church will be raptured seven years prior to the second coming of Christ, and Jews will suffer tribulation. Beginning with Darby, rapture theorists held that, due to the murder of Messiah, Jews were in for a time of unprecedented suffering referred to as the “Great Tribulation.” Multiplied millions today hold firmly to this belief. But is it biblical? Holy Tradition, including Scripture, knows nothing of a rapture independent of the bodily appearing of Christ.

For further study, see Hank’s books The Complete Bible Answer Book—Collector’s Edition, Revised and Updated https://www.equip.org/donate/ and The Apocalypse Code: Find Out What the Bible Really Says about the End Times and Why It Matters Today https://www.equip.org/donate/

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Hank Hennigraph, president of the Christian Research Institute and host of the Bible instrument and broadcast with another Hank Unplug Short.
0:21.1	Just recently, I saw a tweet by Benny Hinn, who's at it again.
0:26.3	This time he was talking about how the Lord spoke directly to him.
0:31.1	So this is God to Benny Hinn.
0:33.7	God's saying to Benny that he needs to talk to his audience about the great catching up
0:40.6	and that his teaching about this rapture or great catching up is timely in that the rapture is nearly
0:50.2	upon us. Could be any day, could be any week, and then I discovered that the tweet was several
0:57.0	years old. But this raised, in my mind, the necessity to do a Hank Unplug short on whether
1:07.0	this very popular theory is biblical or not.
1:13.6	Has it been taught in the history of the church?
1:19.4	Well, actually, the answer to that question is it's fairly recent.
1:25.4	It's a 19th century idea.
1:33.2	The pre-tribulational rapture theory that is being peddled by the bennie hens of this world posits that God has two distinct people with two
1:40.5	distinct plans and two distinct destinies. The church is going to be raptured seven
1:48.1	years prior to the second coming of Christ, and during this time of tribulation, the Jews
1:58.0	will suffer horribly.
2:04.3	I remember writing in a book called The Apocalypse Code,
2:06.6	find out what the Bible really says about the end times and why it matters today,
2:08.9	writing about Dr. Tim Leahy.
2:12.1	When he was alive,
2:14.2	he, the author of the Left Behind series,
2:17.3	contended that the coming Jewish Holocaust was
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