A Good Post Trib Read by Zac Poonen
I have changed my position over the past few years from being a pre-tribulation view to being a post-tribulation and even flirting Amillenialism. To be honest, I haven’t spent much time on the subject lately and I am a bit rusty…so I thought I would try and stir up the hornet’s nest with a good article about the post-tribulation rapture.
I personally enjoyed this quote (relevant to the comments from people defending the prosperity gospel)…
Those who are not disciples think of blessing only in terms of God giving them things. Those who are disciples recognize that it is just as much blessing – perhaps even more – when God takes them away. Thus we can know whether we are disciples or not.
The Church and The Tribulation — Zac Poonen
We are told in Eph. 3:10 that in the new covenant, God desires to manifest His wisdom through the church to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places. From Eph. 6:12, we know that these rulers and authorities in the heavenly places are Satan and his hosts of wickedness who dwell in the second heaven (where they dwell ever since being cast down out of the third heaven, where God dwells – 2 Cor. 12:2)
We know that we are to be Christ’s witnesses unto all men. But here we are told that we have to have a testimony to the evil spirits too. What testimony is this? It is a testimony to the wisdom of God (Eph. 3:10). It is the joyful confession of our spirits that God has ordered everything in our lives according to His perfect wisdom. It is the testimony of lives that have partaken of the wisdom that is from above.
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