The Secret Rapture—
Is it Scriptural?

64 pages. Price $5.

Based on part one of GREAT PROPHECIES OF THE BIBLE, by Ralph Woodrow, this 64-page book (available in this form for wider distribution), shows that the now-popular “secret” rapture was not taught in the early centuries of the church, but developed within the last two centuries.

Excerpts:

We hear a lot today about the “rapture.” It is preached and taught in positive terms on Christian radio and television programs. “The ultimate trip,” as some call it, has been the theme of sensational movies. Bumper stickers carry slogans like: “In case of the Rapture, this vehicle will be unmanned,” or “The Rapture: The only way to fly!”

Dramatic sermons tell how thousands of people will suddenly disappear into thin air. Cars will wreck, veer off the road, or plummet over cliffs, as drivers are raptured away. Planes will crash as Christian pilots go up in the rapture! Television programs will be interrupted as frantic voices give reports—a horrified husband says he and his wife were eating, when suddenly she disappeared right before his eyes. A mother reports seeing her baby instantly vanish from its crib. A Christian doctor who had just made the incision for major surgery, suddenly disappeared through the ceiling of the operating room!

While newspaper boys holler out headlines about “Millions Missing,” church members (who missed the rapture!) will meet in emergency sessions, choosing new leadership, as they face the years ahead. The rapture has taken place! The trumpet of the Lord has sounded! And time continues on. Is this the scriptural description of the rapture?

In all due respect to Christians who hold the secret rapture teaching, it is our conviction that it should be rejected; first, because it lacks solid scriptural support and, secondly, because of its comparatively recent origin.