What About The Rapture?

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LindaR,

your 5 reasons seem to me to be valid whether the rapture comes before the trib or after it. But given that the scripture says that the Prince who is to come wil be given authority to make war on the saints and overcome them (Daniel, I think), when I ask who are the saints the only answer I get is that the church is. The need to invent a separate catreogory of "tribulation saints" as LaHaye and Jenkins seem to do in their novels is a stretch.

I am not a dispensationalist, I cannot agree with the 7 dispensation scheme that I see touted around the place. There was never 7 means whereby people are to be saved, but ony ONE, namely faith.

Two covenants were given, the first to highlight, by virtue of its unworkableness, the necessity of the second, namely faith by grace