Can I lead persons astray with what I am teaching?  That is an important question.  One that all who teach in the name of Jesus must consider.  There are certainly accusation arising that a teacher can be leading others astray.  If I myself think this to be true of others; then certainly what I teach is fair game for scrutiny.  And followers should question these messages even as I ask you to question others.  Any teaching must pass examination from the Scripture.  Claiming the source to be from scripture won’t suffice.  It must be seen in the plain view from the scripture itself.  

So I too need to defend what I see as the teaching of end times. 

I like to think that I have studied other’s views as well as my own, and each with the same scrutiny.  I believe, the approach is to always give Scriptural reasons by looking to the application of what are the perceived contradictions to clear statements of Scripture, and then to proceed logically bringing other scriptures to bear on the subject.  I always encourage debate. 

But, even if somehow I’m missing some very important point, which will change my mind some day, if and when it would be shared with me, still there is apparently (according to many) no penalty admitted for presenting error in end time teaching.  But are they correct?  I think there is stated penalty, and that’s why we must be careful. But others often tell us no. 

Many look at prophecy this way. Their understanding seems to be that eschatology is a non essential doctrine to salvation; and therefore it really doesn’t matter. 

But, I hear Scripture differently — consider, if I’m wrong; then what am I to do with the clarity that is Scripture?  If the scriptures that we use to support what the teaching concludes are wrong when taken literally; then we must be shown why we have misunderstood their meaning. Study to show yourself approved, has no meaning if Scriptures have no meaning. Are they not to be believed as they are written?  Seems a strange understanding of study, should that not be the case.  

Aside from that, if words in scripture don’t mean what they say; then my being wrong would lead no one astray, for in the case of say the pre-Trib Rapture teaching, the believers will be taken everyone with that Rapture; then all even false teachers apparently are taken.  Beliefs on eschatology would then mean nothing.  And they would be correct: for being in Christ is the measure of one’s salvation.  So — No harm done by false teachers?  Yes I did put a question mark there.  The Bible seems to condemn false teaching.  

But, if I’m right in deciding that the Post-Trib position is right; then everyone found to have been misled to think that they are not to see the promised persecution of believers during the Tribulation, will find themselves in the midst of Satan’s wrath upon them.  It will come against followers of Jesus (the offspring), whom I believe us to be, of Israel, and what will that misleading by them do to their followers, who are in the midst of these, their own suffering?  Jesus says those who endure to the end will be saved.  Jesus says: many will fall away.  Jesus says there will be false teachers among us. All men not “in messiah” “in Christ” are promised God’s wrath.  Are men who fall away still “in Christ”?  Ephesians 2:3 Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. 

Romans 2:5 But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, 

The Tribulation itself cannot possibly meet these criteria of a very specific wrath for all men not in Christ. Men not in Christ are left alive on earth following the Tribulation to then be destroyed by the wrath of the Lamb when He returns to set up His Kingdom. There are even some of them left after His return to earth when He proceeds to judge the nations of the earth.  The goats of that judgment are thrown into the lake of fire, after Tribulation is over and is done with. Read Matt. 25. 

Even though the Tribulation probably does include some laser like surgical attacks by God on wicked men, just as He has done at various times throughout mankind’s history; still these attacks, although more concentrated in a specific event in time within the Tribulation, still they do not constitute the wrath, which God has promised to protect each and every believer from.  If the Great Tribulation were the wrath of God from which we believers were protected; then every man who has ever lived on this planet, who was or is not in Christ, would need to be resurrected to experience the Great Tribulation, because they all are promised that wrath from which we as believers are all protected. Tribulation is most obviously not that wrath.  

I will argue eschatology’s case using the logic that Scripture itself presents to us. And again I invite anyone with a Scriptural argument that will contradict what this logic states to please let me know in the comments section.  

My desire is that every man would heed the gospel, with its end of days teaching planted firmly within the gospels.  Paul merely further explains that teaching, which comes from His own encounter with not only Scripture, which he helped to write; but with the God head — all three.  

Only the post-Trib position allows every man who will ever encounter this Christ to be able to possess every promise that has been made for all who come to Him, during the age of mortal man before His return. If we say that men can come to Christ using this one and only gospel during the Tribulation; then the promise to them will be the same.  They too will be kept from the wrath of God that is to come.  

This is why men have invented another gospel specifically for Israel. It is called the gospel of the kingdom.  It is said that they rejected this offer of His kingdom when He came first, but I say they accepted it and we celebrate that on Palm Sunday.  What they rejected was Him as savior.  And what they must accept before He will return is the one and only gospel (the good news) that will save them.