The Lord has blessed me to have the opportunity to pastor various churches in Illinois, Washington state, and Nevada. All three churches loved the Word and loved studying prophecy. One of the stumbling blocks that we learned together was that all of us pick up beliefs along the way that many times are not rooted specifically in the Bible, but from movies, church doctrinal statements, Sunday school, Christian fiction or from parents or family traditions.
When it comes to the rapture, there certainly are many people who attack the blessed hope, but at the same time there are those who are eagerly anticipating the Lord’s appearance who have allowed some traditions to influence their thinking. This book will challenge some traditional viewpoints, but we must be able to always challenge our own presuppositions and continue to examine whether our beliefs are
rooted in scripture alone. You don’t need to agree with everything that Jeff has written in this book to see that he loves the Word and is committed to unapologetically steering people into basing their worldviews and theological understanding on the text of Scripture.
We often think of the rapture as the great disappearance act at the end of the age. We base this mostly in movies we have seen or fictional books we have read. Jeff guides us back to the Scriptures to see that there is more than meets the eye.
Truth to be told, these truths have been available to the eye the entire time. We just passed over them or were instructed that there was nothing to see.
These are exciting times and the soon coming rapture and the details that the Bible reveals are the next best event on God’s time clock. Be watching just as Jesus commanded! (Mark 13:37).
Mondo Gonzales
Co-Host, Prophecy Watchers
Rapture Parallels, Patterns, Pictures, and Types 