Corrie ten Boom Spoke Against the Pre-Tribulation Rapture Taught By Dispensationalism

Posted : 7 Oct, 2010 02:00 PM

Corrie ten Boom Spoke Against the Pre-Tribulation Rapture Taught By Dispensationalism



http://www.tedmontgomery.com/bblovrvw/rapture/corrie.html



"Miss Corrie ten Boom was a Dutch survivor of the Nazi Concentration Camps and a lifelong missionary. Corrie was a believer in facing tribulation. She was one of the many people persecuted in concentration camps during World War II. Her family was murdered before her eyes; but though her life was threatened, God led her through that terrible time. She lived to testify all over the world of how God brought her out of that time of trouble."



"Here is Corrie�s exhortation to us from a letter she wrote in 1974:



There are some among us teaching there will be no tribulation, that the Christians will be able to escape all this. These are some of the false teachers that Jesus was warning us to expect in the latter days. Most of them have little knowledge of what is already going on across the world. I have been in countries where the saints are already suffering terrible persecution.



In China, the Christians were told, �Don't worry, before the tribulation comes you will be translated � raptured.� Then came a terrible persecution. Millions of Christians were tortured to death. Later I heard a Bishop from China say, sadly,



"We have failed. We should have made the people strong for persecution rather than telling them Jesus would come first. Tell the people how to be strong in times of persecution, how to stand when the tribulation comes � to stand and not faint."



I feel I have a divine mandate to go and tell the people of this world that it is possible to be strong in the Lord Jesus Christ. We are in training for the tribulation, but more than sixty percent of the Body of Christ across the world has already entered into the tribulation. There is no way to escape it. We are next.



Since I have already gone through prison for Jesus� sake, and since I met the Bishop in China, now every time I read a good Bible text I think, �Hey, I can use that in the time of tribulation." Then I write it down and learn it by heart.



When I was in the concentration camp, a camp where only twenty percent of the women came out alive, we tried to cheer each other up by saying, �Nothing could be any worse than today.� But we would find the next day was even worse. During this time a Bible verse that I had committed to memory gave me great hope and joy:"



" If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you; on their part evil is spoken of, but on your part He is glorified (1 Peter 3:14)."

Post Reply