fell to the earth, as a fig tree drops its late figs when it is shaken by a mighty wind.” The sun, moon, and stars are also darkened in Rev 8:12: “Then the fourth angel sounded: And a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them were darkened. A third of the day did not shine, and likewise the night.”

Where can we find that the lights of the heavens are turned back on if we believe that Revelation is to be taken in chronological order?

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Q: I have a question regarding Isaiah 34:8: "For the Lord has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion." Assuming a pre-wrath perspective, do you think that Isaiah 34:8 is referring to the Day of the Lord (DOTL) and does it indicate that the DOTL will last one year? If the answer to both of those questions is “yes,” and assuming the rapture immediately precedes the DOTL, does that mean that the rapture will occur at near the six-year point of the 70th week? Is that too close to date setting?

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Q: Could you point me to materials that show the superiority of pre-wrath over post-trib? Most of the post-trib sites do a thorough job of addressing pre-wrath position, but I have not found pre-wrath responses to these.

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Q: I have a question about Dan 7:13-14. It says, “...with the clouds of heaven One like a Son of Man was coming, and He came up to the Ancient of Days and was presented before Him.” It doesn't sound like Christ coming to earth as we usually interpret it, but more like Christ going up to God in heaven. This of course, is a preterist argument, which states that when Christ ascended after His resurrection the "spiritual" kingdom of God was established (v. 14). Any thoughts about verse 13 and its mention of Christ coming up to the Ancient of Days?

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Q: I read somewhere that the Lord would judge the world with fire. I have searched and searched and can't find the reference anywhere. I was going over Revelation and noticed that we don't see the Lord using fire as a means of his wrath/judgment until after the seventh seal. Can you help me? Also something that you might already know is that the word “tribulation” is not used after we see those who have come out of the Great Tribulation (Rev 7:14).

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Answers to Reader Questions

Q: In Revelation 3:10, God makes a promise to the Church of Philadelphia to "keep" them from the hour of trial. If this means that the Philadelphian Church can be expected to be spared the worst of the Tribulation, isn't this just pre-trib lite?

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Q: Once the Antichrist signs his treaty with Israel, won't most of Christianity recognize their mistake and abandon the pre-trib position? I can't see them undergoing the seal judgments and still expecting an "any moment" rapture.

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Q: What is the standard for being in the Philadelphian church? How will God protect them?

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Q: Why does the Body of Christ need to go through the Tribulation, or part of it?

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Q: What do you think about the following passage in light of prewrath thoughts? “Then from the smoke came the locusts on the earth, and they were given authority like the authority of scorpions. They were told not to damage the grass of the earth or any green growth or any tree, but only those people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. They were allowed to torture them for five months, but not to kill them . . . And in those days people will seek death, but will not find it...” (Rev. 9:3-6). Does it mean that there will be Christians around after the rapture (newly converted)? Obviously, this occurs during God's wrath. Is it the Jews who remain?

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Q: In a recent Talkin' Rapture column, you wrote, “Thus, the cry, `the great day of God's wrath has come,' does not mean that those making this statement are experiencing God's wrath. Rather, it tells us that the mighty men realize that they have entered this final period of judgement, called the Day of God's Wrath, during which God's wrath will be poured out. Indeed, it is only after the completion of the seven trumpet judgements and prior to the outpouring of the bowl judgements, in Rev. 11:18, that we see the actual arrival of God's wrath.”

Does this mean that you don't see the seven trumpet judgments as part of God's wrath? Aren't the trumpets and bowls all God's wrath, but the bowls are described as the "final" part of God's wrath (Rev. 15:1)?

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Q: In Rev 6:12-14, it says: “I looked when He opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood. And the stars of heaven