Did the Early Church Believe in the Rapture? | Lee Brainard | The Week in Bible Prophecy
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Gary Stearman and Mondo Gonzales
4.6 • 970 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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In this fascinating discussion, Lee Brainard and Mondo Gonzales examine what the church fathers actually taught about Israel, the Church, the tribulation, and the millennial kingdom.
Together they unpack the literal, grammatical approach to Scripture, Daniel’s 70 Weeks, the future of Israel, replacement theology, and powerful historical evidence showing that many early Christian writers believed in a literal Antichrist, a future tribulation, and even a pre-tribulation catching away of believers.
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| 0:00.0 | The Week in Bible Prophecy, a Prophecy Watchers podcast. |
| 0:08.2 | Well, hello, everyone. |
| 0:09.7 | Welcome to the podcast today. |
| 0:11.5 | Mondo Gonzalez here in studio with Lee Brainer. |
| 0:14.3 | Welcome, Lee. |
| 0:15.2 | Mondo, it's good to be with you guys again. |
| 0:17.3 | What a topic to talk about. |
| 0:19.0 | Yeah, this is a great topic because we see the confusion out there as it relates to dispensationalism. |
| 0:25.8 | Kind of a big word. |
| 0:26.8 | People wonder, well, what the heck does that mean? |
| 0:28.3 | And there seems to be a lot of hatred, whether you use a word like dispensationalism or even Zionism. |
| 0:37.1 | Not only do we see it in the, |
| 0:38.6 | in the Christian church, but we see it through the political, we see it a little bit with, |
| 0:43.5 | certainly with Tucker Carlson or Candice Owens, some of the others that are become very anti-Israel. |
| 0:49.3 | Is that what you're seeing? |
| 0:50.4 | I see the same thing. |
| 0:51.7 | And I think we're going to see this anti-Israel, anti-Zionist, anti-Jewish spirit continue to increase in America as we get towards the end of the age, because, as we know, one of the very signs that you've come right up to the end of the edge of the world, is that the whole world is going to hate Israel for Christ's sake. |
| 1:15.9 | And so, you know, on that note, I heard one person say, give me any evidence at all of that claim. |
| 1:24.9 | What biblical evidence would you have? |
| 1:27.2 | I got my own views, but what biblical evidence would you have |
| 1:30.3 | that there's hatred at the end of the age |
| 1:32.2 | of the Jews specifically? |
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