As a young and newly converted evangelical, I was quickly introduced to the evangelical pop sub-culture that included Contemporary Christian Music (CCM). In 1969 the famous CCM artist Larry Norman released “I Wish We’d All Been Ready.” …The premise of the song is that Jesus will come and believers will be taken secretly to be with him, and, in this scheme, the rapture will be followed by a period of tribulation. If we read [Matthew 24:36–44] slowly and carefully, however, we will see that, in context, to be taken is not a good thing—it is not to go be with the Lord in the air. No, to be taken is a bad thing. Read more»
R. Scott Clark, “Two Points On ‘Left Behind’ and the ‘Secret Rapture'”
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Dispensationalism was taught to me as orthodoxy, but I could never make it work even though I read all the notes in my Ryre study Bible and my mom’s Scofield as a teenager. One of the great reliefs of my life was discovering that there were other serious Christians who didn’t believe in Dispensationalism.