Page 5 - The Rapture Question by John F. Walvoord

CONTENTS
Preface to Second Edition 7
Preface to First Edition 9
1 The Promise of His Coming 11
2 The Meaning of the Church 21
3 The Tribulation 39
4 The Historical and Hermeneutical Basis of Pretribulationism ... 49
5 The Nature of the Tribulation 59
6 The Imminency of the Rapture 69
7 The Work of the Holy Spirit in This Age 77
8 The Necessity of Intervening Events 83
9 The Translation and the Second Coming Contrasted 93
10 The Partial Rapture Theory 97
11 Midtribulationism ............................................................................ 115
12 Varieties of Posttribulationism 131
13 General Posttribulational Arguments 147
14 The Rapture in the Gospels 181
15 The Rapture in 1 Thessalonians 4 197
16 The Rapture in 1 Thessalonians 5 211
17 The Rapture in 2 Thessalonians 235
18 The Rapture in 1 Corinthians 246
19 The Rapture in the Book of Revelation 253
20 Fifty Arguments for Pretribulationism 269
Notes 277
Bibliography 287
General Index 294
Scripture Index 300