The Return: Understanding Christ's Second Coming and the End TimesThomas Ice, Timothy J. Demy One of the clearest New Testament teachings is that that Church has a blessed hope - the return of Jesus Christ. This insightful book presents a balanced, biblical viewpoint as a result of contributions by many of today's best-known premillennial, dispensational scholars and authors including Thomas Ice, H. Wayne House, Tim LaHaye, J. Randall Price and John F. Walvoord. |
Contents
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The Rapture and an Early Medieval Citation | 55 |
The Blessed Hope and the Tribulation in the Apostolic Fathers | 75 |
The Rapture and the Return Two Aspects of Christs Coming | 95 |
The Doctrine of Imminency Is It Biblical? | 107 |
Are the Church and the Rapture in Matthew 24? | 121 |
1 Thessalonians 4 A Central Rapture Passage | 137 |
Apostasia in 2 Thessalonians 23 Apostasy or Rapture? | 147 |
Twelve Reasons Why This Could Be the Terminal Generation | 183 |
Glossary | 201 |
Endnotes | 203 |
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