Friday, October 11, 2024
The Letter today is intended for Christian pastors, ministers and Bible teachers who teach the false hope of the dispensational pre-tribulation rapture. It’s a travesty that many believers today, tens of millions in fact, have their hopes built on a pre-trib rapture which will never occur by the authority of God’s written word. The pre-trib rapture has laid a snare of no small proportion that will devastate the faith of many unless repented of quickly. Natural and man-made disasters now occur continuously, as Jesus warned “there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring” (Luke 21:25). Love for God in Christ and fellowman teaches the post-trib rapture Christ taught, not assigning the tribulation to unbelievers, and those who teach the pre-trib rapture teach rebellion.
Pastors, ministers and Bible teachers, wake up! Physical and spiritual end-time signs are flashing neon red all around. The time of preaching platitudes must stop! People’s eternity is now on the line. America is seemingly under God’s judgment. The world is on the cusp of WW3 and world governments are against people. The New World Order is forcing itself upon all societies. End-time evils foretold by Christ are now common, and yet thousands of you continue preaching the hopeless and unbiblical pre-trib rapture. Wake up to the great need for Christ’s truths, His end-time truths. If you profess to love God and people, then prepare people to endure to the end as Christ taught at Matt. 24:13, and stop defending traditions that deny the “it is written” truths.
Love for God and fellowman teaches truths, God’s truths. And Christ’s truth teaches the 7-year tribulation and prepares believers to endure it to the end, Matt. 24:13, because Jesus gathers His elect “Immediately after the tribulation” (Matt. 24:29–31), and not before as many of you pastors and Bible teachers say. And if you deny that the Olivet Discourse is intended for the Church you cause unbelief and rebellion in many who listen and eagerly agree with your traditions “making the word of God of no effect” (Mark 7:13). You are unwise, you are fearful, refusing to preach and defend Jesus Christ and prepare people in His testimony. Your rejection of the truth reveals your fear, not love. Fear hides the truth “because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love” (1 John 4:18). Confess your unbelief and fears to Jesus Christ.
This is a strong warning to every pastor and Bible teacher who teaches the false pre-trib rapture. You sow contempt and unbelief toward Christ who said He gathers His elect “Immediately after the tribulation”. You preach rebellion against the written word of God. Of your type, the Lord warned: “Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a ditch” (Matt. 15:14). That is what will happen when the 7-year tribulation begins and people in the church realize that they’re still here. Then what Jesus said will become reality: “And then many [even in church] will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another” (Matt. 24:10). Why will this be? Because the pre-trib rapture you promised will be proven to be a lie, resulting in offense and hatred directed at you who promised people a ride to heaven free of the 7-year tribulation which Jesus said we must endure to the end, Matt. 24:13.
You who preach and teach the pre-trib rapture do not speak in love, but in rebellion to Christ. And you must know that God has already given us an example of what that rebellion looks like when ancient Israel was on the verge of their Promised Land, but ten of the twelve, the majority, sowed fear and unbelief of God’s word, and the majority of the house of Israel perished in the wilderness outside their otherwise intended eternal possession! See Num. 13 and 14. And so it will be again when believers on the cusp of entering our promised inheritance will see Antichrist just as Christ promised, Matt. 24:15, also as Israel saw their giants and were insatiably offended, then hated and betrayed their leaders and were ready to stone them to death, Num. 14:10!
The world is increasingly now in a tangled web of deceit, judgment and chaos. The Church will be right here on earth to endure the Seal Judgments, Trumpet Judgments and Bowl Judgments of The Revelation of Jesus Christ, and much more. Yet, you have set yourselves against the word of God in Christ, and have cast your vote on the side of Satan’s lovable lie, deceit and false hope of a pre-trib rapture. You have spiritually disarmed the people! You have led people to believe you instead of the “it is written” testimony of God’s Son! Do you really want that record to precede you into eternity? How proud must one be to actually assert his word above that of God’s Son!
You are a stubborn and stiff-necked people who teach the pre-trib rapture, for not a single verse of Scripture speaks of a pre-trib rapture. You deceive multitudes just as ancient Israel’s Pharisees deceived followers of God with their multitude of erroneous traditions. When will you preach the defense of Christ and prepare your people to endure the tribulation as Christ taught? Is there time to turn around the unbelief that you’ve already sown? Only God knows, but if you don’t begin to preach Christ’s end-time truths now and prepare the people, now, the fallout will be catastrophic. As ministers of the gospel, we, of all people should know that the gate and path to eternal life is “difficult”, because that’s the word Christ used to describe it at Matt. 7:13–14. But your pre-trib rapture promises people just the opposite, that your path is obviously “much easier” and free of the Christ-promised seven-year tribulation. You must forsake your false witness immediately!
What are you afraid of? Do you fear losing your popularity, your position, your pride or your credentials of men? Do you fear losing your “Likes” on social media? Who do you love more, God or men with their contemptible traditions? Who was “despised and rejected by men” (Isa. 53:3) and suffered death for your salvation, Jesus or men and their truth-denying traditions? Do you seek the praise of God who is unseen or the praise of men and their traditions who are seen? Time is running out, who will you honor? I write and deliver this Letter in love for Christ before whom we must all stand and give account. But as for me and my house, we will be on the side of Christ and His “it is written” testimony, because Jesus Christ is “the way, the truth, and the life”.
Now, to the many readers of the Letter, I ask that, if you attend an organized church, that you print off this Letter and give it to your pastor, your minister and Bible teacher, because the time is urgent. Who knows, you just might cause many people who are currently deceived about the rapture to believe the truths Christ taught and help prepare themselves to endure to the end.
My new book “ON EAGLES’ WINGS” was written with much Bible study and prayer and reveals many truths in preparing unbelievers and believers alike for the 7-year tribulation and finding God’s safety and provision for the last 1,260 days of “great tribulation” (Matt. 24:21).
Marlin J. Yoder
