The Genealogy and Exegesis of the Rapture

nntheological critique in Left Behind Deconstructed 2025 into conversationnnwith patristic testimony, forensic historical analysis, Koine Greek lexicalnnexegesis (harpazō, parousia, apantēsis, and apostasia), and Walter C.

Hellenistic civic-reception language illuminates the gathering of believers as an honor guard greeting the arriving King; the destination, however, is determined by the wider canonical sequence rather than by any single Greek noun. Claimed ancient and early modern precursors—nnincluding The Shepherd of Hermas, the Latin Sermo de fine mundi Pseudo-