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The Translation and the Second Coming Contrasted
author, entitled The Blessed Hope and the Tribulation. The ap­
proach here, while incorporating some of this material, is nec­
essarily from a different point of view. With due recognition of
the diversity of posttribulational views, a summary of post­
tribulational arguments should be considered. Then a study of
pertinent Scripture passages contrasting the pretribulational
and posttribulational interpretations will be undertaken. The
question, after all, is What do the Scriptures teach? While the
subject is complex and involves many details, the main issues
will emerge in the study of pertinent Scripture. As pre-
tribulationism and posttribulationism cannot both be right,
the student of the Scripture must decide on the basis of the
weight of evidence supporting either position. Before turning
to posttribulationism, however, the divergent positions of the
partial rapture view and the midtribulation rapture view will
be considered.

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