In the audio clip below, Ryan Habbena from Signet Ring Ministries lays out some of the basic tenets of the Pre-Wrath Rapture perspective.
Here’s an excerpt from a more detailed explanation of the view (posted on the Prewrath Resource Institute website):
“The timing issue can be settled if the beginning of the Day of the Lord can be determined within the frame work of end-time events. The Prewrath position acknowledges that the eschatological Day of the Lord will be signaled by a sign given in the sun, moon, and stars, a sign distinctly described in the eschatological book of Joel. Jesus indicates in the Olivet Discourse that His Parousia will immediately follow the sign Joel prophesied, which marks the inception of the eschatological Day of the Lord. Jesus also indicated in His revelation to John that Joel’s sign in the sun, moon, and stars will be the sign that announces the day in which His wrath begins, a sign given in the heavenlies that will be displayed at the breaking of the sixth seal.
Therefore, as one compares the six seals to the events outlined in the Olivet Discourse, one quickly sees that the rapture must occur after the Seventieth Week of Daniel begins, after the mid-point of that same Week has begun, and after Satan/Antichrist’s persecution of the Church is cut short (Matt. 24:22) when the sign of the eschatological Day of the Lord and the parousia of Christ is given in the sun, moon, and stars. The exact day or hour when the sixth seal will be broken is not detailed in the Scriptures (Matt. 24:36), but when that happens it will announce to the entire world the inception of the eschatological Day of the Lord.”
Here is a basic comparison of the four primary views on the timing of the Rapture:
Show: Echo Zoe
Full Podcast: Ryan Habbena: Pre-Wrath Rapture – Part 1
Date: 8/9/08
Host: Andy Olson
Guest: Ryan Habbena
Topics: Pre-Wrath view of Rapture–the name is new, but the understanding is not; A lot of early church fathers could have been labeled “Pre-Wrath” because they held to the essence of the view; Distinct from Pre-Trib, Mid-Trib, and Post-Trib; The Rapture will become imminent at a certain point in time, it just isn’t imminent yet; Pre-Trib and Pre-Wrath are similar in that they both believe the Church is exempt from the wrath of God–where they disagree is in what constitutes the “wrath of God”; Pre-Wrath’s contention is that the wrath of God consists of the Day of the Lord–that is what we are promised to be exempt from; The Day of the Lord does not begin until sometime in the second half of Daniel’s 70th week
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