Not Afraid of the Antichrist: Why We Don't Believe in a Pre-Tribulation Rapture

Despite the popular theology of our day, Christians should not expect to get out of experiencing the tribulation or the end times. Nowhere in the Bible does the Lord promise us this, say Michael Brown and Craig Keener, two leading, acclaimed Bible scholars. In fact, they say, Jesus promises us tribulation in this world.

Yet this is no reason to fear. In this fascinating, accessible, and personal book, Brown and Keener walk you through what the Bible really says about the rapture, the tribulation, and the end times. What they find will leave you full of hope. God's wrath is not poured out on His people, and He will shield us from it--as he shielded Israel in Egypt during the ten plagues. So instead of taking comfort in what God hasn't promised, take comfort in the words of Jesus: He has overcome the world, and we live in his victory.

Michael L. Brown (Ph.D., New York University) is Director of Spiritual Renewal and Apologetics at the Jerusalem Bible Institute in Israel and has served as a visiting or adjunct professor at eight seminaries. He hosts the nationally syndicated daily talk radio show The Line of Fire and has written more than forty-five books. Learn more at TheLineOfFire.org.

Craig S. Keener (PhD, Duke University) is F. M. and Ada Thompson Professor of Biblical Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky. He is the award-winning author of nearly forty books, with some 1.4 million copies in circulation. Keener's books have won fifteen national or international awards, including six in Christianity Today. He is married to Dr. Médine Moussounga Keener, who was a refugee in her home country of Congo for eighteen months; their story appears in Impossible Love: The True Story of an African Civil War, Miracles, and Hope against All Odds.