The Pre-Trib Rapture Myth
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In “The Pre-Trib Rapture Myth,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about the resurrection, faith, the authority of Scripture. Drawing especially from Ephesians 5, 1 Thessalonians 5, Revelation 20, Hebrews 6, the teaching emphasizes that Christ’s resurrection establishes the believer’s hope and the certainty of God’s final victory. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises.
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Odle focuses on faith while working through Ephesians 5. The message argues that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. It connects this with the conviction that a durable Christian life must be built on Christ, sound doctrine, and obedient response to Scripture. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on the resurrection. The message argues that Christ’s resurrection establishes the believer’s hope and the certainty of God’s final victory. It connects this with the conviction that baptism is examined as an act of obedience and identification with Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on the resurrection while working through Revelation 20, Hebrews 6. The message argues that Christ’s resurrection establishes the believer’s hope and the certainty of God’s final victory. It connects this with the conviction that the message traces the promised reign of Christ and its place in the prophetic sequence. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on faith while working through Matthew 24, Daniel 9, Daniel 11. The message argues that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. It connects this with the conviction that the message examines biblical descriptions of the final adversary and the deception surrounding his rise. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on salvation while working through Matthew 24. The message argues that salvation is presented as God’s work in Christ that produces a changed life and continuing faith. It connects this with the conviction that believers are warned to test persuasive claims and religious appearances by Scripture. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on Bible prophecy while working through Matthew 24, 2 Thessalonians 2, Revelation 8. The message argues that prophecy should produce discernment, readiness, and faithfulness rather than speculation alone. It connects this with the conviction that Christ’s resurrection establishes the believer’s hope and the certainty of God’s final victory. The practical emphasis is to remain watchful, grounded in Scripture, and ready to obey Christ.
Odle focuses on family discipleship. The message argues that faithfulness in the home requires instruction, loving correction, protection, and a consistent Christian example. It connects this with the conviction that God’s judgment is treated as righteous, certain, and a reason to repent while mercy is offered. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on divine judgment while working through Revelation 20, Matthew 24, Psalm 91. The message argues that God’s judgment is treated as righteous, certain, and a reason to repent while mercy is offered. It connects this with the conviction that the sermon relates Israel’s place in Scripture to the unfolding prophetic picture. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
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that's our prayer today lord we pray god that you would just fill us with your holy spirit lord we need to be filled lord as ephesians 5 says we need to continually be filled lord we need you today and we pray for that feeling and we pray for your anointing we pray god that you would just prepare us lord for everything you have us to do father in jesus name we pray amen amen you may be seated hallelujah hallelujah are you okay are you getting picking up something all right hallelujah amen good to worship the lord amen anybody else yeah it's amazing the atmosphere that can be in a in a building you know or a house and that right anna that's that's how we met anna hallelujah this morning we're going to continue on at something you know when i learn things it's hard for me to keep them to myself so i have to share because i just want y'all to know y'all y'all know this don't you that i believe every christian has to continue learning don't ever think you got it all amen start thinking you got it all you're in trouble because you're going to get in pride and then the bible says in obadiah the little book of obadiah one chapter obadiah three it just says it's the pride of thine heart deceive thee and he was talking to to the but it applies pride always deceives it always blinds you so humility when it comes to to the bible humility and teachableness now that's not saying be swayed with every wind of doctrine that comes around there are certain fundamental beliefs of christianity that you have to believe and that will never change but things like i preach on preaching on end times uh prophecy or you know preaching on many different things even dealing with sin dealing with the demonic realm dealing with all you know this thing we got to grow and learn we don't know everything there is to know about the spirit world and how it operates and nor do we know everything that we need to know or that's in this book about end times prophecy and i'll be the first to tell you that i don't know everything that's going to happen and i don't have it all i'm just trying to get a better in better grasp i keep studying i keep listening to different preachers and teachers and theologians and i'll listen to just about anybody especially on this subject of end times prophecy because i believe you can learn things from all kinds of people
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i met with a baptist pastor that came to our conference he came to our end times conference i think he just came to the saturday meetings but he wanted to meet with me this this week and and you know what i liked about him was he was like you know i want to learn i i you know and he's he's got this mentality i you know what if i'm wrong and he's open to listen to other people and i listen to him and he gave me some books and i gave him some stuff and we're looking i was reading through the book he gave me last night so um but even before i had that meeting and we left friends we discussed once saved always saved and of course disagreed on that we discussed the pre-trib rapture and we disagreed on that and we discussed a number of things but it was in a peaceful you know i want to hear what you have to say and you know it was it was that's the way the body of christ should be we shouldn't be so locked in on things that we can't listen to one another uh you know so so anyway but even before i had this meeting with the pat that pastor this has nothing to do with with him while i'm about to teach on what i'm about to teach on but um i just felt like that since i've learned a little bit more since about a year ago when i preached on this and since some of you were not here then then i might need to cover this again and clarify it a little bit more because i think god's revealed some things to me even this morning that i did not know about the subject so what we're going to cover this morning is the the issue of the rapture or the resurrection and this is you know this is a a foundational doctrine in the church we need to understand that the resurrection of the dead is a foundational doctrine of christianity if jesus and paul made it clear he said if jesus didn't rise from the dead then we are still in our sins that's how important the resurrection is and understanding that if we don't believe that jesus not only died for our sins but rose from the dead if we don't believe that then we're not born again christians we're not true christians we have left the fundamentals of the faith but the reason one of the reasons that jesus rose from the dead was to show us that one day everyone is going to be resurrected some to everlasting life in heaven and some to eternal punishment in hell so everyone's going to be resurrected everyone's going to get their body back everyone who's died been cremated everyone's going to get it back and i want to show you where this is one of the foundational doctrines of jesus the resurrection of the dead so i want you to go with me first to the book of hebrews hebrews chapter six hebrews chapter six i'm calling the message this morning the pre-tribulation rapture myth
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you know myths are fun to believe are fun to tell the story but that doesn't mean they're true right they're exciting they have their points but a myth is one thing and the truth is another where did i tell you to turn hebrews chapter 6. all right let's read this starting in verse one these he talks about these these are foundational if you wanna know the foundational doctrines of christianity here they are okay apart from the you know and again this doesn't address the part that we believe number one that the bible is the inspired word of god from genesis to revelation number two that jesus christ is god and the son of god and the only way to heaven all right so those are the givens right but then he talks about things that that we are to be established in as believers let's look at this [Music] well matter of fact let's back up into verse five and this is what he has to tell these hebrew christians he says this to these jewish christians verse 12 he's or verse 11. he says in verse 5 of whom we have many things to say and hard to be uttered seeing your dull of hearing for when the times come are for when the time you ought to be teachers you have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of god and become such as have need of milk and not of strong meat for everyone that uses milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness for he is obey but strong meat belongs to them that are of full age even to those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil so i'm not going to stay on that but then he goes on and see remember when this was originally written there weren't chapter breaks so he goes straight he's therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of christ and what he's saying is we need to get the basics down and move on right but most of christianity doesn't do that but he says leaving the principles of the doctrine of christ let us go on to perfection or to maturity not laying again the foundation and here he starts in the the foundational doctrines he says repentance from dead works say this with me repentance is foundational teaching foundational doctrine to christianity if there's no repentance there's no forgiveness all right and i've taught on that before but this is one of them right here then the next one he says and of faith toward god right how many of you know just changing your ways doesn't save you alone you have to repent and what believe trust rely on cling to that whole definition of having faith in god right so faith in god and our lord jesus christ that's how
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we say that's where you start right there right then he says this and i love this of the doctrine of baptism plural meaning it's not just water baptism there's another baptism the baptism of the holy spirit with the gift of speaking in other tongues there's the baptism of fire there's the baptism in water actually three baptism actually you could actually say there's a fourth one because paul talked about being baptized into the body of christ but he might mean that once you're baptized in water and baptized in the spirit and baptized in the fire you're baptized into the body so i think that probably includes that i kind of like it because you know the bible says there's one lord one faith and one baptism right but in the one lord three parts amen so i think the one baptism is also three parts this scripture here is plural baptisms so we should have the foundation you need to be baptized in water if you're a believer and you've been born again and you've never been baptized you need to be baptized in water that's to obey the lord and i believe that something spiritual takes place there as well it's not just a it's not just an ordinance of the church okay and then of course you know i believe you need to be baptized or filled with the holy spirit and and with the evidence of speaking in other tongues because we are pentecostal around here amen so these are things you should grow in then he goes on he said in the doctrine of baptisms and of laying on of hands the doctrine of laying on them hands is very important laying on hands for prayer to heal the sick laying on of hands actually to administer the baptism of the holy spirit laying on of hands to impart gifts there's many reasons for the doctrine of laying on of hands and it's taught throughout the bible i'm not going to get into all that but it is one of the foundational doctrines and then he says and of the resurrection of the dead and of eternal judgment so the resurrection of the dead needs to be taught in the church what is going to happen at the resurrection now you can write this down in your notes if you're writing notes this morning okay there are two resurrections and only two okay now if someone dies now and somebody like me or you or one of us has enough faith and we decide or feel led by god that we're to go pray for them and raise them from the dead that can happen and that does happen in the body of christ it's happened in many ministries that can happen but that doesn't mean that it's the two resurrections i'm talking about okay there could be many people raised from the dead david hogan's ministry down in mexico they've had hundreds of people raised from the debt smith wigglesworth the one of the great pentecostal ministers of healing had at least 20 something people raised from the dead documented in his ministry so the resurrection of the dead can happen as a miracle but the two
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