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Does the Orthodox Church teach a “pre-tribulation rapture”? |
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Orthodox Christianity and the early Church teaches that the Lord will come once and for all after the tribulation (Matthew 24: 29 - 31). The Nicene Creed states that Jesus Christ, ‘will come again with glory to judge the living and the dead, whose kingdom shall have no end’. On that day everyone will receive eternal and perfect payment for their deeds. There is no-pre-tribulation “rapture", nor is there a one thousand year reign taught in the Holy Scriptures, or by any church father east or west. In fact, the 5th Ecumenical Council of the Universal Church specifically rejected the idea of a "thousand year reign" as a heresy! These heterodox teachings supposedly came through a dream someone had in the 18TH century and were subsequently promulgated by the Scofield Bible translators and adopted by certain Protestant Evangelical groups later.
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