What You Should Know about the Rapture

At first when I started reading this book I thought it was going to be helpful in teaching me about the end times---esp the rapture. Dr. Ryrie begins by briefly presenting pre-, a-, and post- millennial views, just enough so the reader will know the basic differences. He goes on to say the book will be focusing, not on the different millennial views, but the rapture. Midtribulationism and partial rapure are both mentioned but not discused as much as pre- and post- tribulationism are. The book is mainly a refutation of posttribulationism and an affirmation of pretribulationism. But after reading most the book and becoming perplexed, I had to put it down. I would suggest this book to those with a sufficient amount of previous knowledge of eschatology. I'll probably read this book again after I research more though. From what I hear, this Ryrie is an expert in the field and if I had been studying when the rapture will occur, this book would not have been so confusing.

Written by a truly fine scholar, this book will give the reader a basic understanding of the pretribulation rapture point of view. Of particular interest is the inclusion of information about the origin of the pre-trib view from someone within the pre-trib camp itself, and not from an outsider. Much of the material focuses on arguments against a post-trib rapture. At times though, I was not convinced that some of the arguments were presented as objectively as they could have been. Nevertheless, Dr. Ryrie, always being the gentleman, presents the material in a non-offensive, scholarly style. Worthy reading.