Anyone read David Currie's Rapture: The End-Times Error That Leaves the Bible Behind?

[JamesStephan]

I am nearing the end of the book – hoping of course that I finish it before I am snatched up to Heaven! Seriously, I found it an enjoyable and informative read. I particularly enjoyed the discussion near the end of the (very long) chapter on the Apocalypse on why St Irenaeus many years ago and evangelicals today turned to rapture theology. Currie explains everything in great detail!

 

[KathleenGee]

Unfortunately, I do not have the head scholar of the Apocalypse from Rome…he has studied all apocalyptic materials from the different sources, and he says what we are being prepared is an interior return of Christ to our hearts…but the surrounding events will be as a mini judgment.

We do see conditions around us that seem to draw us into a one world government…but actually there are various political sources going in every which way.

What I am looking at now is the disregard for the marriage, its permanent state, and that this is the best place to care and develop a human being…

We are seeing a great loss of faith in the sacred, and in faithful relationships…people living out of wedlock with no shame, no value for virginity, the spirit of profanity and blasphemy all of the earth, the degradation of the human being through pornography…that is what I am see from my neck of the woods…how much can the Lord endure this rejection of Him and people abusing each other, I don’t know.

 

[letendre]

Anyone read Rapture: The End-Times Error That Leaves the Bible Behind by David Currie?

Here is a summary of the book:

Author David Currie grew up conviced that one day all true Christians will suddenly be snatched up to heaven. The unfortunate souls left behind by this “rapture” will endure seven horrible years of tribulation, at the end of which Christ will return to earth for a glorious thousand-year reign.
Today, millions accept this end-times theology, assuming — as Currie did — that the Bible clearly teaches it. Many plan their lives around it. But, after studying Scripturefor decades, Currie has come to see that accepting the Bible means rejecting the rapture.

In this remarkable book — the world’s most careful and thorough scriptural study of the rapture — Currie demonstrates why. He considers all the relevant verses ( there are hundreds!) and examines them in the light of ancient history, the writings of the earliest Christians, and the claims of the rapturist theologians. With painstaking thoroughness, he unlocks the meaings of key biblical prophecies that culminate in Christ’s Messianic Kingdom— including those verses in Daniel, Matthew, and Revelation that rapturists turn to most.

Marshaling evidence as startling as it is compelling, Currie argues that these prophecies of war and tribulation don’t point to some still-unrealized apocalyptic future. Rather, most of them were fulfilled long ago: the spiritual, priestly Kingdom prefigured in the Old Testament was inaugurated on Calvary, consumated in 70 A.D. with the destruction of the Temple, and continues to exist today…the Catholic Church!

That surprise you. Yet, as Currie shows, it’s the only conclusion that fits all the scriptural and historical evidence.

Rapture: The End-Times Error that Leaves the Bible Behind makes Scripture, prophecy, and history come alive; and it demonstrates that if you open your Bible, you’ll find that God’s plan for the future of the world is not filled with darkness and disaster, but with light, mercy, and hope.
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About the Author**

David B. Currie is a former Fundamentalist missionary whose deep study of the Bible led him into the Catholic Church. He is a popular speaker and author of Born Fundamentalist, Born Again Catholic.

 

[letendre]

I never bought into all that end of the world stuff. I think what David Currie said is true. The prophesies happened all ready. I think all the people who make all the Left Behind Series are doing it for two reasons: 1. To make a prophet 2. To scare everyone into living a chaste life or live with terrible consequences.