On today's program, our lead question comes from a pastor friend in Brazil: Was the Pre-Tribulation Rapture invented only 200 years ago? Then, great questions from the live chat: Why would God bring the Jewish people into 7 years of such a terrible time before they repent? Will the Bible be banned during the Great Tribulation? Is a Christian better off because of Adam’s sin? How can we keep saying that we are in the “Last Days” if Jesus hasn’t come yet? Did God create the Earth in 6 literal, 24-hour days? Can you recommend some books on the end times and prophecy? What is the relationship between being filled with the Holy Spirit and the baptism of the Holy Spirit? Is the rapture of the Church the second coming of Jesus and His coming at Armageddon the third coming of Jesus? Was it possible for dinosaurs and humans to live at the same time? Did Paul write the letter of Hebrews? Who did? How does one grow in the gift of prophecy? What advice is there for older people who want to serve the Lord but can’t do as much as they used to? What is the difference between “created” and “begotten.” Is it God’s will for people to get sick or suffer? From the Shepherd of Hermas, as early as a.d. 90: “You have escaped from great tribulation on account of your faith, and because you did not doubt in the presence of such a beast. Go, therefore, and tell the elect of the Lord His mighty deeds, and say to them that this beast is a type of the great tribulation that is coming. If then ye prepare yourselves, and repent with all your heart, and turn to the Lord, it will be possible for you to escape it, if your heart be pure and spotless, and ye spend the rest of the days of your life in serving the Lord blamelessly.” The Shepherd of Hermas, 1.4.2 From Victorinus, late third century: “…and the heaven withdrew as a scroll that is rolled up. For the heaven to be rolled away, this is that the Church shall be taken away.” Commentary on the Apocalypse, 6:14 “…and I saw another great and wonderful sign, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is completed the indignation of God. For the wrath of God always strikes the obstinate people with seven plagues, that is, perfectly, as it is said in Leviticus; and these shall be in the last time, when the Church shall have gone out of the midst.” Commentary on the Apocalypse, 15:1 From Pseudo-Ephraem, as early as the 4th century: “Why therefore do we not reject every care of earthly actions and prepare ourselves for the meeting of the Lord Christ, so that he may draw us from the confusion, which overwhelms the world?” “For all the saints and elect of God are gathered, prior to the tribulation that is to come, and are taken to the Lord lest they see the confusion that is to overwhelm the world because of our sins.” From the sermon, "Sermon on the Last Times, the Antichrist, and the End of the World" Why the Doctrine of the Pretribulational Rapture did not Begin with Margaret Macdonald By Thomas Ice https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/58820865.pdf