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Three Views on the Rapture

Copyright 2010 by Alan Hultberg, Craig Blaising, and Douglas Moo

Copyright 1984, 1996 by Zondervan

ePub Edition May 2018: ISBN 978-0-310-52882-1

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hultberg, Alan, 1962

Three views on the Rapture : pretribulation, prewrath, posttribulation Rapture / Alan Hultberg, [also] general editor, Craig Blaising, Douglas Moo.

p. cm. (Counterpoints)

Rev. ed. of: Three views on the Rapture / Gleason L. Archer, Jr. et al. c1996.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-310-27720-0 (softcover)

1. Rapture (Christian eschatology) 2. Tribulation (Christian eschatology) I. Blaising, Craig A. II. Moo, Douglas J. III. Three views on the Rapture. IV. Title.

BT887.R37 2010

236'.9 dc22

2010019272

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