Caught Up: 1 Thessalonians 4 and the Truth About the Rapture

By Daniel R. Hyde

Will you be "left behind?” Evangelical Christianity knows this question well. It has been inundated with the pre-tribulational, pre-millennial, secret rapture of the church for the last century. In fact, just last week Dallas Theological Seminary advertised a free ebook on social media, The Truth and Timing of the Rapture by Mark Hitchcock. In response, the Alliance is pleased to offer Caught Up: 1 Thessalonians 4 and the Truth About the Rapture by Daniel R. Hyde, editor at MeetthePuritans.org.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals
• Release date: Sep 22, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370601714

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Caught Up

1 Thessalonians 4 and the Truth About the Rapture

Daniel R. Hyde

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About the Author

Daniel R. Hyde is the Pastor of Oceanside United Reformed Church in Carlsbad/Oceanside, California. He is also the Editor of MeetthePuritans.com.

© 2017 by Daniel R. Hyde and the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

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"He shall come again to judge the living and the dead and He shall come again, with glory, to judge the living and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end." These words of the Apostles’ and Nicene Creeds, respectively, have echoed down the halls of history for nearly two millennia. But somewhere near the end of that hall in recent church history a side door was opened and a confusing sound was added.1 That added echo was the teaching of a secret rapture of the church from this world. To get a sense of just how novel and recent this view is in the history of the church, listen to George Eldon Ladd: "The hope of the Church throughout the early centuries was the second coming of Christ, not a pretribulation rapture. If the Blessed Hope is in fact, a pretribulation rapture, then the Church