Hello Brothers and Sisters,
I found this interesting video about a per-trib rapture, I gotta say its the best and most informative video that I've seen. Its about a 47 minute video but gave me alot to think about. God Bless.
I listened to the first 7:30 of the video, and I found it to be not only not interesting or informative, but not even very well researched or correct. It's not even based on Scripture, but on the doctrine of dispensationalism, for which he provides no biblical support, but simply assumes to be true. At just before 5 minutes into the video, there's a picture of a calendar with the new moon marked, and he didn't even get a simple thing like that correct. The new moon spoken of in Scripture is the first sliver of the the crescent moon that was actually seen each month. He has it marked as the astronomical new moon, which can never bee seen, but only calculated. That may seem trivial, but it's actually quite significant. It's what's called an anachronism. If you see an anachronism in a Bible study, it should send up red flags all over the place. So, what exactly is an anachronism?
An anachronism is basically something that is not in the correct chronological context. An example would be someone wearing a digital watch in a movie that's supposed to take place in the Middle Ages. What the video does, that I mentioned before, is to take a modern calculation and impose it on thousands of years old Scripture. If that were the only thing, I would attribute it to sloppy research and let it go, but it's not the only thing. Not even in the first 7.5 minutes. He also takes the doctrine of dispensationalism, which wasn't proposed until the 19th century, and imposes that on the feasts of the Lord, instituted over 4 thousand years ago. The same applies to the pre-tribulation rapture.
To summarize, what he's doing is not searching Scripture to arrive at his beliefs, but reading modern doctrines into Scripture, I find that neither interesting nor informative.
The TOG