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Title: Three Views on the Rapture by Gleason L. Archer, Paul D. Feinberg, Richard R. Retter, Richard R. Reiter ISBN: 0-310-21298-7 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 02 September, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.11 (9 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Great Backgrounder
Comment: The timing of the rapture is a matter of much debate these days, and in order to have a discussion in what I call "the James 3 tradition" (respect, love, humility, and grace), it helps to have an accurate understanding of what the other positions are and why others hold to them. As such, this book does a good job of describing three of the four main premillennial positions on this topic. I believe the omission of the emerging and rapidly mainstreaming prewrath position, however, was an unfortunate oversight that I hope will be corrected in future editions.
One of the most fascinating aspects of this book is its introduction that discusses the development of the pretrib, midtrib, and posttrib positions. When one understands how these positions developed and why one gained more steam and notoriety than others, one begins to understand why popularity alone does not determine orthodoxy.
Interestingly, the origination of the pretrib concept in the early 1800s and its rapid deployment throughout the evangelical circles in the 1900s had less to do with good practices of scriptural interpretation than a response to the amillennial interpretations that had dominated for centuries, combined with popular exposure to this position due to power and resources of its defenders during a time of relative scriptural ignorance among the general population. The midtrib and posttrib positions developed in the academic circles in response to the perceived error of rapidly popularizing pretrib position, but they came too late; pretrib had already become entrenched. Such background is fascinating and necessary for any student of the rapture and helps to put the positions themselves into perspective.
The presenters of each of the three positions covered in this book are well chosen, and they provide good, overall assessments of the academic proof-texting of each of these three views. The back-and-forth debates between the holders of each position expose the reader to the basic reasoning behind them, as well as the strengths and flaws in each argument. They also expose the fact that none of these positions can stand strong against critical scrutiny and holds firm only in isolation. Hence, my disappointment that the prewrath view was not included in this discussion.
I think this is a terrific book for anyone wanting to gain grace and understanding in the rapture debate. I do not recommend it because any of the three presentations are, in themselves, convincing (they are not). Rather, I recommend it as an important backgrounder and primer on three of the four primary positions from an academic (rather than popular) perspective and a good sense of how and why they developed.
-- H. L. Nigro, author of Before God's Wrath: The Bible's Answer to the Timing of the Rapture
Rating: 1
Summary: There can only be 'one' view of the rapture, not three.
Comment: Perhaps I'm just getting tired of reading the same information, repeated by different people. The temptation with three points of view of the rapture is to be complacent (there's no need to worry, we'll be safe), or scared (because we don't have the facts). But then, what if I'm wrong in my choice of one of three? What if all three of those viewpoints are wrong?
The point I'm trying to make is there cannot be 'three' viewpoints on the rapture. Sometimes I wonder if authors raise more questions to mask the fact that they cannot answer the question directly. But somewhere in the Bible there is only 'one' answer to this question.
Rating: 3
Summary: Not convincing
Comment: It is interesting to read Three Views on the Rapture but I'm convinced that none of three views is biblical. I am a Postmil and I believe that the Bible gives enough evidence that the Great Tribulation already happened during the period 67-70 A.D. during which period the Lord unleashed His vengeance on apostate Israel. John himself, in writing Revelation, specifically mentioned that the Tribulation was SOON to take place and the TIME IS NEAR. Moreover, the message of Revelation was specifically addressed to the SEVEN CHURCHES WHICH ARE IN ASIA. These 7 churches existed during the 1st century and suffered greatly in the hands of Apostate Israel. Finally, John mentioned about the great temple which was in Jerusalem that was to be handed over to the Gentiles to be destroyed. History shows that this actually happened. No rapture took place during this tribulation period because it was the will of God for the true Church to endure the sufferings as He himself suffered in the hands of the Jews. Nowhere in the history of Christianity has the Church suffered so horribly than during this period prior to the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D.
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Title: Three Views on the Millennium and Beyond by Darrell L. Bock, Kenneth L. Gentry, Robert B. Strimple, Darrell L. Bock, Richard B., Jr. Gaffin ISBN: 0310201438 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: Four Views on the Book of Revelation by C. Marvin Pate ISBN: 0310210801 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: Four Views on Hell by William V. Crockett, John Walvoord, Clark Pinnock ISBN: 0310212685 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 06 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: The Meaning of the Millennium: Four Views by George Eldon Ladd, Robert G. Clouse, Anthony A. Hoekema ISBN: 0877847940 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: June, 1977 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Four Views on Eternal Security by J. Matthew Pinson, Stanley N. Gundry, Michael Horton, Steven Harper ISBN: 0310234395 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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