Mark Hitchcock: Can We Still Believe in the Rapture?

Prophecy Watchers

Gary Stearman

Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 850 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

One of the most controversial and misunderstood subjects in Christian circles today is the timing of the Lord’s return. Will the church be raptured before the Tribulation and be spared the wrath of God described in the book of Revelation? Will we endure some of God’s wrath as the “pre-wrath” crowd tell us? Or will we all die as martyrs for the cause of Christ? Pastor Mark Hitchcock has been a great defender of the rapture of the church for over 30 years. His calm, logical approach to defending this core doctrine of dispensationalism is always a breath of fresh air. Gary and Mark ask and answer the key question—can we still believe in the rapture?

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0:00.0	I'd like to ask you a question. Can we still believe in the rapture? And here to deal with that very pertinent question today is Dr. Mark Hitchcock.
0:30.9	Welcome back, Mark, to Prophecy Watchers.
0:33.0	Well, thanks for having me back again. It's always good to be with you.
0:36.0	You know, we've got a lot to talk about
0:38.1	today. Mark's book is, you know, a question. Can we still believe in the rapture? Why would you
0:45.7	ask such a question? I know I believe in the rapture. I know you do. Right. Well, I worked on this
0:51.0	book, as you can see with Dr. Ed Heinzen. Ed teaches up at Liberty University.
0:55.9	And, you know, what we found is we talked to a lot of people today and they say they don't
1:00.6	even believe in the rapture. I always talk about the rapture, so I don't believe in the rapture.
1:04.5	Now some of them, when they say that, mean, well, I don't believe in the pre-trib rapture. But there's other people just say, you know, they don't believe in the rapture at all.
1:11.6	And I think we're seeing this type of thinking really proliferate among younger people, the younger generation.
1:17.5	They're just not interested in prophecy, really in general.
1:20.5	And I think a lot of them see the pre-trib rapture as kind of fiction, kind of coming out of left behind.
1:25.9	It's just kind of fiction, kind of coming out of left behind. It's just kind of fiction. Or they see it as kind of what I might call kind of tabloid Christianity.
1:30.7	Yeah.
1:31.2	And they don't really think it's real.
1:33.0	They just think it's some kind of fictional idea.
1:34.9	And what we want to do is come and show people that the rapture is true.
1:38.2	It's real.
1:39.3	And it's exciting.
1:40.5	I mean, it's the next event on God's prophetic calendar, and it's an event that's
1:45.1	going to be the most shocking event that's ever happened in world history. Now, you are a
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