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And now, here's Gary.

We're going to be talking about Psalm 110, but also we're going to do a little revisiting of

what we talked about last week.

A little Prophecy 101, because I realized after last week's study that probably I opened a lot more

questions than I answered.

Well, this morning we're going to do something a little bit different.

After last week's study, I got an email suggesting that I had covered a lot of territory that perhaps assumed a certain level of background that might not be present.

I was talking about some comments in a raging debate about how to interpret Matthew 24.

And to me, the debate is fairly clear, but I can understand that there might be people

who have not really cut their teeth on some of the basics about the rapture and the tribulation,

the idea of premillennialism, or the millennial concept in general. So what we're going to do

is back up a little bit as we continue our study in Matthew 24. We're going to define some terms

and look at some basic ideas. First of all, the rapture of the church.

And I assume that everybody knows what the rapture of the church is, starting with the fact that there's no word rapture in the Bible.

Okay. And the reason it's called the rapture is because of the Latin Vulgate Bible and the Roman Catholic Church.

In Latin, Raperet means to grab something and pull it up, as if somebody lifted you up by your hair.

And that translates into English as rapture.

Well, Raperet is used in the New Testament, Latin Vulgate version. And so the catching away of the church

really was a concept that gained popularity among the Roman Catholic fathers, not in the way that

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