Solomons Porch Valdosta

The Rapture: Why Christians Have Never Quite Agreed Where did your understanding of the return of Christ come from? Church? A book series? A sermon? Culture? For many believers, ideas about the rapture, tribulation, and end times didn’t just come from Scripture — they came from a framework we inherited without realizing it. In this episode, we slow down and look underneath rapture theology to the question many Christians were never told was still a question: the millennium in Book of Revelation. What is the “thousand years” in Revelation 20? Is it future or symbolic? Literal or cosmic? And why have faithful Christians never fully agreed? We walk through the three historic views: Premillennialism — Christ returns before a future reign Amillennialism — Christ reigns now; the millennium describes the present age (a view shaped strongly by theologians like Augustine of Hippo) Postmillennialism — the kingdom grows over time before Christ returns You’ll hear how one view came to feel like the Christian position in