Last Things: The Rapture & the Tribulation

<p>For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ <a href="https://www.douglasjacoby.com/raptrib/" target="_blank"><strong>website.</strong></a></p><p>Order of events, popular Christianity:</p><ul><li>Second coming</li><li>Rapture</li><li>Tribulation (for unbelievers)</li></ul><p>Order of events in New Testament:</p><ul><li>Tribulation (throughout our lives as believers)</li><li>Second coming</li><li>General resurrection + rapture</li><li>Judgment Day</li><li>Eternal destiny: heaven or hell</li></ul><p>Etymology</p><ul><li>Rapture < Latin <i>rapire</i>, translating Greek <i>harpadzomai</i> (snatch) in 1 Thessalonians 4:17</li><li>Tribulation < Latin <i>tribulatio</i>, translating Greek <i>thlipsis</i> (oppression, affliction)</li></ul><p>Scriptures cited</p><ul><li>1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 (see also 5:1-2)</li><li>John 5:28-29</li><li>Exodus 7-12</li><li>Revelation 6-19</li><li>Luke 9:52-56</li><li>Jonah 3:10-4:5</li></ul><p>Further</p><ul><li>Revelation 7:14 actually says that the righteous experience the tribulation. I.e., they are delivered through it (not from it).</li><li>Listen to the previous podcast in this series, <i>2010, 2012, & the End of the World.</i></li><li>See the N.T. chapter notes, e.g. those on <a href="http://www.douglasjacoby.com/1-thessalonians-4/" target="_blank">1 Thessalonians 4</a>, or any other chapters in the series.</li><li>Listen to relevant O.T. lessons, e.g. the <a href="http://www.douglasjacoby.com/ot52-jonahmp3/" target="_blank">Jonah podcast</a>.</li><li>From Daniel deSilva's <i>An Introduction to the New Testament, 2nd ed.</i> (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2018) 824n29: "... There is no place in Revelation for the 'rapture.' John calls Christians to arm themselves to die out of faithfulness to Jesus, and indeed the so-called tribulation descended on his hearers in earnest in but a few short decades. We also have to reckon with the peculiarity that Western Christians (especially from the United Kingdom and the United States), who invented the idea of a rapture, should