Eschatological is a term that describes events at the end of the church age. At that time, Jesus will come for His believers, both dead and alive, and meet them in the air. He will not actually come and stand on the earth. At that time the believers will receive glorified bodies similar to the one that Jesus has. This event is called the rapture of the church. Not all Christians believe in the rapture. And, the ones that do, have differing beliefs regarding its timing relative to the seven-year tribulation period and Christ’s second coming. The tribulation period relates to Daniel’s seventieth week that is predicted in Daniel Chapter 9. A plain sense interpretation of scripture supports a Premillennial and a Pretribulational viewpoint. This means that Christ’s second coming will be just prior to His 1000-year millennial reign on earth and that the church will be raptured just before the seven-year tribulation.

The most predominant view, which is held by the Roman Catholic Church and most of the Protestant churches, is an amillennial viewpoint. This belief is based upon an allegorical interpretation of scripture that dates back to Philo, Origen and Augustine and was never changed during the reformation. The reformers neglected to apply the plain sense, literal meaning to all of scripture.

The amillennial view does not have a tribulation or a millennial reign of Christ on earth as the bible clearly states. Our strongly held belief is that the rapture will happen before the tribulation and before the second coming which is immediately after the tribulation. We believe in a dispensational theology where history is broken down into distinct periods of time.