: Mid-Tribulation Rapture

Mid-Tribulation Rapture

Specific Distinctives:
Divides the 7-year Tribulation into two periods of 1260 days each
The first 1260 days is the wrath of the Antichrist
Christians will go through first half of the Tribulation
The second 1260 is the wrath of God which believers will escape
The resurrection of the two witnesses is symbolic of the Rapture of the Church (Revelation 11:1-14)
Believers will be raptured at the 7th 'trumpet judgment' (Revelation 11:15)

Background:
Possibly alluded to by Morgan Edwards in 'Millennium' & 'Last-Novelties' in 1740s at Bristol Baptist Seminary in England
Norman B. Harrison writing in 1941 was the chief promoter of the Mid-Tribulation position

Works:
Norman B. Harrison, The End: Rethinking the Revelation (1941)
Gleason Archer, The Rapture: Pre-,Mid-, or Post-Tribulational (1984)
Karl Kemp, The Mid-Week Rapture (1991)
W. T. Stiles, The Last Days: Let Scripture Be Your Guide (1997) Theological Persuasion:
Calvinists and Armininans Churches:
Baptist and Independent Past Notables:
Norman B. Harrison, James Oliver Buswell, Harold J. Ockenga, Gleason L. Archer Current Notables:
Dr. Michael Ford, Karl Kemp, Steve W. Lemke, W. T. Stiles, Dr. Brian Bailey

Web Sites:
Dr. Michael Ford (http://jonsquillministries.org)
Pasi Toivonen (http://www.mantta.fi/~patato/mrapture.html)
Deborah (http://www2.dmci.net/~milknhoney/drbrapture.html)
Steve W. Lemke (http://www.nobts.edu/Faculty/ItoR/LemkeSW/Personal/midtribulationism.html)
W. T. Stiles (www.letscripturebeyourguide.com)

Quote:
"We will be on the earth during the first half of Daniel's 70th wee. We will not bne on the earth during any part of the fourty-two month super-evil reign of Antichrist, which will begin in the middle of Daniel's 70th week. We will not be here when God pours out His even bowls of wrath. Rather, from the time of the mid-week rapture, we will be reigning with the Lord Jesus Christ." (Karl Kemp, The Mid-Week Rapture, 1991)