Our Desperate Need for Hope * Preparing for the Unknown
The Fear Factor * Examine the Evidence! * Birth Pangs
Hot Wars-Cold Wars * The Ultimate Rumor of War
Out of the Ashes of Victory... * Ethnic Group versus Ethnic Group
Incomplete Victory * Stunted Growth * Mankind's Losing BAttle with Bacteria
Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On * Water Wars?
What's Wrong with the Weather? * Dorothy's Storm Was Nothing!
Scared Silly * Spinning Toward the Abyss
Impending Doom, or Blessed Hope? * Summary

Chapter Two

The Interpretation Debate * Why This Book?
A Few Terms You'll Need to Know * The New Protestant Purgatory
Why So Many Views? * Some Areas of Common Agreement
No Millennium? * A Disagreement among Brothers
From Bouquets to Battle * Can Anyone Offer a Sure Hope?

Chapter Three

What Is the Rapture, Exactly? * I Love a Mystery * A New Truth
The Rapture Means No Death * The Rapture Includes All
The Rapture is a Transformation * The Rapture is Instantaneous
Will We See Our Loved Ones Again? * The Rapture is a Reunion
A Meeting in the Air * To the Father's House * Put it All Together
An Ancient Lesson in Hope

Chapter Four

Controlling the Imagination * A Cardinal Maxim * How to Avoid Error
Alexandria, the Beginning of Darkness * The Blessing and Curse of Augustine
The Impact of the Reformation on Interpretations
The Forerunners of Serious Prophetic Studies
LITERAL, GRAMMATICAL, AND HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION DEFINED
Example # 1, Jesus Interpretated Literally
Example # 2, Jesus Interpreted Grammatically
Example # 3, Jesus Recognized Double Reference in Prophecy
A Lesson and a Warning * Are You the One Who Was to Come, or Should
We Expect Someone Else? * The Mystery of Elijah's Coming
THE APOSTLES INTERPRETED LITERALLY * Peter Interprets a Prophecy with Double Reference
The Double-Reference Dilema
Context Tells the Story

Chapter Five

How Rapture Truth Was Rediscovered * Unsealing the Apocalypse Code
Mine Are Better Than Yours? * A Short History of Prophetic Interpretation
Prophecy's Dark Ages * The Curse of Replacement Theology
Augustine's Influence * Early Church Was Pre-Tribulational
Don't Take My Word for It, Let's Ask Ephraem!
The Essence of Pseudo-Ephraem * The Period of Prophetic Ferment
Some Observations * The Snow Job * Antoher Blast From the Past

Chapter Six

So Many Views, So Little Space * Some Divine Distinctions
What Is an Age? * Explosive Emotion versus Reason
Dispensationalism Defined

Chapter Seven

What Are the Dispensations or Economies?-God's Time Line
The Dispensation of Freedom or Innocence * The Angelic Factor
God Had a Plan * The Dispensation of Conscience or Self-determination
The Dispensation of Civil Government

Chapter Eight

Precise As It Needs to Be * The Dispensation of Israel under Promise
A Promise Is a Promise * The Dispensation of Israel under Law
The Dispensation of Grace * A Clear Distinction * The Apostate Church
How the Church Ends * The Unparalleled Time of Global Catastrophe
The Dispensation of the Millennium * Summing Up

Chapter Nine

God's Greatest Mystery * Jew and Gentile Segregated Again
What Is the Church? * A Very Special Word
The One Who Builds the Church * The Most Important Baptism
The Local Church * The Visible Church on Earth

Chapter Ten

The Mystery of Being "In Christ"
Christ's Death, Burial and Resurrection Become Ours
The Most True Thing * Now What? * Is the Church a Mystery?
The Postmillennial Argument for the Church in Tribulation
Why Are Gentiles Mentioned in Old Testament Prophecy?
What about Dispensational Transitions?
The Close of the Great Parenthesis * The Restrainer Must Go

Chapter Eleven

History of the Future * The Duration of the Tribulation
God's Prophetic Stopwatch * Two Critical Historical Events
The Last Week * A Distinct and Special People
Events Just before the Tribulation

Chapter Twelve

The Promise to the True Church * The What, Who, and Why of the Test
The Church of Philadelphia * Search for the Missing Church
Who Moved the Lamp? * The Bride in Heaven
An Embarrassing Resurrection * Is God a Bigamist? * Summary

Chapter Thirteen

The Thessalonian Legacy * The All-Time Greatest Bible Conference
The Problem of Lazy Brethren * The Rapture Delivers from Wrath
"The Wrath to Com" * Rapture, Reunion, and Crown (2:19-20)
Rapture and an Unblamable Heart (3:12-13) * The Great Body Snatch (4:13-18)
The Day of the Lord (5:1-11) * Paul's Answer * The Day of the Lord in
the Old Testament * Day of the Lord in the New Testament
Antichrist's Unveiling Closely Connected to Beginning of the Day of the Lord
Sanctified and Completed at the Rapture * Summary of 1 Thessalonians

Chapter Fourteen

Light from a Forged Letter * The Terrifying Forgery
A Curcial Question * Two Imperative Historical Signs
The Great Apostasy * The Unveiling of the Antichrist * A Necessary Prelude
The Restrainer * The Duration of the Restrainer's Mission
Who Is the Restrainer? * Is the Restrainer Satan? * Is the Restrainer the Holy Spirit?
Is the Restrainer the Archangel Michael?

Chapter Fifteen

Revelation's Chronology and the Rapture
Why Revelation is Relevant to Rapture * Risking Treason
Describing the Indescribable * The Divine Outline
The Things Which You Have Seen... * The Things Which Are...
The Things Which Shall Take Place after These Things...
An Amazing Similarity

Chapter Sixteen

God's Wrath upon Earth Begins * TheConsecutive Order of the Judgments
Who Is Worthy to Open the Seal Judgments? * The Tribulation Begins
Two Prophets Shake the World * An Important Observation
The First Series of Judgments Begins * Are the Seal Judgments Part of God's Wrath?
The First Seal: Antichrist Revealed
General Conditions of the First Half of the Tribulation
The Midpoint of the Tribulation

Chapter Seventeen

The Second Seal Opened-War Begins * Jerusalem, My Glory
The Third Seal-Global Economic Catastrophe * The Fourth Seal-One Fourth of Mankind Perishes
The Fifth Seal-Massacre of Saints * The Sixth Seal-First Nuclear Exchange

Chapter Eighteen

The Seventh Seal-Another Series of Judgments
The Trumpets-A Judgment of Thirds * "Wormwood"
John Knew Beijing's Troop Strength * A Shocking Survey of World Opinion

Chapter Nineteen

Vignettes of the Main Characters and Movements
The Seventh Trumpet-Bowl Judgments Unleashed
A Reaping unto Life and a Reaping unto Death
The Seven Golden Bowls of God's Wrath * Terror Times 200 Million
The Death of All Cities * The Second Advent of the Messish
This Bride's Not Blushing Anymore * The Enormity of the Tragedy
It's No Wonder

Chapter Twenty

World Peace for Three and One-Half Years
God's Blazing Wrath in the Second Seal
Armageddon Isn't One Battle, but a War * The Seventh Seal and Trumpets

Chapter Twenty-One

The Earliest Roots of Dominion Theology
Road to Holocaust * Is God a Liar? * Signed, Sealed and Delivered
Don't Bother Us with Facts * Summary

Chapter Twenty-Two

Optimism versus the Truth * What Is Ultimate Success for the Church?
Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory * What Is Victory for the Gospel?
The Freedom-to-Choose Factor * PARABLES ABOUT COUNTERFEIT BELIEVERS
"Taring" Up the Gospel * The First Error
The Second Error * A Parable about Evil's Explosive Power to Spread
The Third Error * The Great Commission * Mockers of the World, Unite!
Jeremiah and the Positive-Confessing Optimists of His Day
"Machismo" versus Spirituality * Contend Earnestly for the Faith

Chapter Twenty-Three

The Pre-Wrath Rapture of the Church * Too Many Tribulations...
The Problem[s] Are... * When Does the Wrath Begin?
Michael Not Strong Enough * Not a Great Enough Multitude to Qualify
Turn It All Around and It Works! * I Will (Sometimes) Leave or Forsake You
Summary

Chapter Twenty-Four

Another Problem * It Just Doesn't Work
The Purpose of the Day of the Lord (2:8-12)
The Beginning of God's Wrath * Paul's Final Proof

Chapter Twenty-Five

One a Personal Note