The popular answer is the Pre-Trib view, the one thing all non Pre-Tribbers seem to agree on.
I really don't understand how the people who are now not believers or believers who are uninterested in Prophecy talk about being raised on the Pre-Tirb Rapture and being constantly terrified by it. They clearly did not truly understand what The Rapture is if they found it frightening.
But what I'm going to discus here is how most of my fellow non Pre-Trib Futurists seem to think, simply by virtue of it being currently the mainstream view, that Pre-Trib is the most dangerous view. That once we're clearly in the 70th Week and no Rapture happens countless formally faithful Pre-Tribbers will lose their faith and fall away.
Post-Tribbers particularly then see the dangers of Pre-Trib as innate in any more obscure view that has the Rapture as distinct from Revelation 19, even though I am adamant Christians will face Great Tribulation. They are unwilling to listen to anything I have to say on Prophecy so long as I'm not Post-Trib like them.
I don't think so low of Pre-Tribbers, or anyone else who disagrees with me. But especially Pre-Tribbers because I've grown a lot in the Spirit listening to other issues talked about by Pre-Tirbbers like Chuck Missler. Pre-Tribbers are often the most likely to agree with me on Eternal Security, it seems the Pre-Wrath camp has a lot of Calvinism in it.
I've listened to a lot of Pre-Tribbers, many do believe American Christians will face persecution first. I'm confident they will simply get over it and rework their understanding once Pre-Trib is proven wrong.
I don't think there is any risk of truly Saved people being "deceived" by the II Thessalonians 2 event. I certainly don't think it's possible for a saved person to take the Mark, if you think that 100% of people who take The Mark are damned, but also believe in Eternal Security, then you have to believe no Saved person could take the Mark. I think the Mark is instituted after The Rapture has just happened, and the awakening Israelites are fleeing to the wilderness. So no one already saved will be presented with that dilemma.
Rob Skiba likes to say that the warning to Believers to not be deceived clearly means it's possible for us to be deceived. That is true but it's not about the II Thessalonians 2 event, that event isn't a deception at all, that's when the Deception ends and the enemy just comes right out and says what he means, he will not claim to be Jesus or The God of The Bible he will claim to be better then The God of The Bible.
Before that, during the first half of the Week it might, MIGHT, be possible for Believers to wind up being tricked into helping/supporting the Man of Sin.
Pre-Trib will be proven wrong pretty much as soon as the 70th Week starts. I believe The Temple will be standing before we enter it, and all of the first Six Seals will be opened before the Nisan that starts it is over.
So I'm more concerned that the default position among people is that IF Pre-Trib is wrong Post-Trib must be the only other option. Then after that is the trendy Pre-Wrath view. And also that movie from the Pastor I do not like to name that is presenting a model technically Mid-Trib in form but is really a hybridization of Post-Trib and Pre-Wrath ideas. Pre-Wrathers especially love to brag about Mid-Trib being a "defunct view". Well they should remember that it'd suit Satan well if the correct view is the least popular.
All three of those models place the Seventh Trumpet at the end of the 70th Week rather then The Mid-Way point as a plain reading of Revelation clearly shows. Post-Trib sometimes sees the sixth or seventh Seal as the same event but not always. Pre-Wrath places the Sixth Seal some indeterminate amount of time after the Mid-Way point.
Meanwhile there are also people arguing that there is no 70th Week, that the entire period is only 3.5 years and so every 3.5 year period referenced is the same. And most who do believe in a 70th Week have this wrong idea that those years will begin and end on Yom Teruah, when Yom Teruah should Biblically mark the midway point.
I've talked to Pre-Wrathers who think it's possible we're already in the 70th Week now and aren't aware of it. I firmly believe it can't start till The Temple (it could be just a Tabernacle) is standing in Jerusalem. Pre-Wrathers also tend to think the Persecution only starts at the Abomination of Desolation.
Basically what I'm saying is I fear once Pre-Trib is firmly debunked people may be deceived into thinking we're already at or past the Mid-Way point when the 70th Week has really only just started.
The only issue there is how can people be tricked into thinking The Abomination of Desolation has happened already when it really hasn't? Paul certainly makes what it is unmistakable in II Thessalonians 2. But lots of people are already trying to alegorize or twist that.
I think there will be plenty of Christians who won't fall for this deception, even if their current views make them vulnerable to aspects of it. But we need to be aware of how that deception could work.
1. Thanks to how the 1290 days reference from Daniel 12 is commonly misunderstood, most people assume the Sacrifice and Oblation is made to cease at the same time as the Abomination of Desolation when it's really 1290 days before it.
2. The Anti-Semites of the world may well think the Temple being rebuilt itself is the Abomination of Desolation. That's what some of Texe Marrs logic seems to imply. And since many other Dispensationalist and Zionsit Christians think it's possible The Temple won't be rebuilt till very soon before it happens, they are not prepared to refute that argument timing wise.
3. Then there are the people who allegorize what The Temple means in II Thessalonians to being The Church. Don't assume that view will lose credibility once a Third Temple is standing, many of them are clarifying they do think The Jews might get their Temple rebuilt, but that Christians should not be tricked into thinking that is prophetically relevant.
4. Rob Skiba has gone and wrongly defined what The Abomination of Desolation of Antiochus Epiphanes was, saying it refers to when he offered the Pig on the Altar (a legend that is apocryphal to begin with) not the Idol. So imagine if it's Nisan, perhaps on Passover, someone invades Jerusalem, enters the Temple and kills a Pig on the Brazen Altar. Rob Skiba is set up to be deceived, especially if that same Decoy Antichrist claims to be Nimrod.
5. I've also seen someone argue (with the intent of supporting a Prestist view however) that when Jesus said "The Holy Place" really means "A Holy Place" and that the Abomination need not happen in specifically the Inner Sanctuary at all. This is especially tempting to fall for once you notice Antiochus Epiphanes lesser Abomination Idol wasn't in the Holy Place but on the Brazen Altar. That's probably why Rob Skiba got confused. But II Thessalonians 2:4 says he sits in The Temple, the only sitting Place in The Temple was the Ark itself which lid was the mercy Seat, this Temple I don't think will have the real Ark.
6. I also think some might get confused by a person deifying himself or giving Messianic status to himself and forget that The Beast will also speak AGAINST the True God.
All of these could be relevant, since Satan will probably try to have multiple deceptions going on with multiple Decoy Antichrists. Maybe even relevant in ways that sometimes overlap.
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