13 Reasons Why Not to Trust the Modern ‘Secret Rapture’ Theory

1. Scripture does not teach it.

2. Neither Jesus nor the Apostles taught it.

3. The historical Christian Church never taught it.

4. The martyred millions whom the Word of God calls 'blessed' never taught it.

5. It is a relatively recent invention foisted on the professing Christian Church.

6. Its modern-day prophets make millions teaching and preaching it.

7. It caters to the carnal nature of man who would prefer to escape tribulation.

8. When the Apostle John, himself in tribulation, saw a futuristic vision of the innumerable multitudes of saints in Heaven, not one had escaped tribulation.

9. It requires closing a blind eye to Church history.

10. It requires closing a blind eye to the doctrines and history of the Roman Catholic Church.

11. It requires closing a blind eye to the fulfillment of the Papacy as that predicted Antichrist, the Man of Sin, and his Church, Mystery Babylon.

12. It requires dismissing as erroneous, confused or irrelevant the united testimony of the ancient Christians, Reformers and Puritans who discerned and exposed the Papal Antichrist and his false Church for what they truly are.

13. It gives succor and comfort to the arch enemy of Christ and His Church by teaching Futurism, whose origin is of the Christ-denying Jesuits.

 

I cite below text from the 1827 edition of The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty written by Chilean Jesuit Manuel Lacunza under the pseudonym of Juan Josafat Ben-Ezra, translated by Rev. Edward Irving, a prominent historic figure in the promotion of Futurism.

A Google search will yield much information on this book.

Spanish Jesuit Francisco Ribera is acknowledged as introducing the first significant Futurist commentary on the Revelation which set the stage for all Futurist commentaries which were to come later.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Ribera

Unfortunately no English translation exists.

However, Protestant commentaries during the Reformation frequently cited his work when defending their view as to the historic fulfillment of the Papacy and Church of Rome as the predicted Antichrist and Mystery Babylon.

For example, German Reformer David Pareus cited both Jesuit Futurist Ribera and Jesuit Preterist Alcasar throughout his commentary.

Commenting on Rev. 19:11, Pareus states Ribera’s view:

Here we have the two-stage Return of Christ taught; first secretly, and then 45 days later, publicly for the final Judgment.

The amount of information available at one’s finger tips via the Internet concerning the Jesuit origins of Futurism is truly staggering.

For example:
http://www.iconbusters.com/iconbusters/htm/false_prophecy/jesuit/j_app_2.htm

 

The heated debate between those who hold to the controversial Doctrines of Grace and those who do not have been ongoing since the days of the Apostle Paul, as is evidenced in Romans 9:18-23.

I have recently posted Waldensian confessions which pre-date Luther by hundreds of years yet held to absolute Predestination based solely on scriptural evidence.

The Arminian position on free will held today by professing evangelicals is the same as that held by the Counter-Reformation Council of Trent, which council was called in order to deify Rome’s position on salvation while damning the Protestant position.

Nearly 150 years later the Baptists were in full agreement with the Reformers' view:

Futurism and Arminianism have much in common with the Church of Rome which is why such ‘luminaries’ as Billy Graham, Joel Osteen and James Robison can praise the papal Antichrist.