: Pre-Wrath Rapture

Pre-Wrath Rapture

Specific Distinctives:
The Church will enter the Great Tribulation which begins at the midpoint of Daniel's seventieth week
The Church will be raptured just after the sixth seal (Revelation 6:12-17) sometime after the midpoint of the 70th week of Daniel but before the wrath of the Lamb (Revelation 6:16)
The Day of the Lord's wrath begins on the same day the Rapture occurs
It recognizes that the Day of the Lord's wrath is distinguished from the Antichrist's Great Tribulation Christians will endure the Antichrist's Great Tribulation but will escape the Day of the Lord's wrath

Background:
Systematized and promoted by Marv Rosenthal (1900) and Robert Van Kampen (1997)
Charles Cooper sees their eschatological position standing on 4 solid legs:
One leg involves the Church's exemption from the wrath of God (Pre-tribulationalism)
One leg consists of a distinction between the wrath of God and the wrath of Antichrist (Midtribulationalism)
One leg constitutes a distinction between the "great tribulation" and the eschatological Day of the Lord (Posttribulationalism)
The last leg shows that the persecution by Antichrist will be cut short before the end of the Seventieth Week, providing the interval between the rapture and Christ's coming at the battle of Armageddon during which time all of the Day of the Lord's wrath, which includes the trumpet and bowl judgments, will be played out

Works:
Marv Rosenthal, The PreWrath Rapture of the Church (1990)
Robert D. VanKampen, The Sign (1992)
Robert D. VanKampen, The Rapture Question Answered: Plain and Simple (1997)
Heidi L. Nigro, Before God's Wrath: The Bible's Answer to the Timing of the Rapture (2000, 2004)
Charles Cooper, God's Elect and the Great Tribulation: An Interpretation of Matthew 24:1-34 & Daniel (2008)
Charles Cooper, Fight, Flight, or Faith: How to Survive the Great Tribulation (2008) Theological Persuasion:
Calvinists and Arminians Churches:
Baptist, Alliance, Community and Independent Past Notables:
Robert Van Kampen

Current Notables:
Charles Cooper, Marv Rosenthal, Ted Montgomery, Toby Vance, Alan Kurschner
Dr. Elbert D. Charpie, Dave Bussard, Roger Best, Heidi L. Nigro

Web Sites:
Charles Cooper (www.prewrathrapture.com)
Marv Rosenthal (www.zionshope.org)
Dr. Elbert D. Charpie (http://prewrathministries.org/about.html)
Strong Tower Publishing (http://strongtowerpublishing.com)

Quote:
"The Prewrath view states that the Great Tribulation (Antichrist's wrath) begins at the midpoint at the abomination of desolation. Then
sometime during the second half of the 70th week of Daniel the Great Tribulation will be cut short with the Second Coming which begins with the rapture. Then the subsequent Day of the Lord's wrath (trumpet and bowls) is poured out upon the ungodly for the remaining part of the 70th week of Daniel." (Prewrath Resource Institute)