Journal: Central Bible Quarterly
Volume: CENQ 01:1 (Mar 1958)
Article: Significant Reviews
Author: Anonymous

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Significant Reviews

THE RAPTURE QUESTION, by John F. Walvoord, Dunham Publishing Co., Findley, Ohio 200 pages, $3.00

This is a book of 200 pages and one written on the highest plane with the greatest discernment. Like any good logician the author begins with a definition of terms. What is “the tribulation,” “the church,” and so forth. With great discernment he says, “Even a thorough work in advocating Post-tribulationism, such as Alexander Reese’s ‘The Approaching Advent of Christ,’ assumes the concept of the term church as all-inclusive with practically no proof or discussion. George E. Ladd’s ‘The Blessed Hope’ is no better.” (page 16)

In the second place the author is willing to accept the Word of God in its plain and simple meaning believing that the Bible was written for common people who would accept it in its plain and ordinary meaning.

In the third place the author concludes in his last and thirteenth chapter with “Fifty Arguments for Pretribulationism. “After the reading of this book I consider it the most convincing of any single volume ever read on the subject, and we firmly agree with the author that there is no Scriptural reason for being doubtful of the Pretribulation Rapture.

R. V. C.

IS THE RAPTURE NEXT? by Leon J. Wood, Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Mich. 120 pages, $2.00 (paper, $1.25)

This book is a careful exegesis of those Scripture passages which would seem to indicate a pre-tribulation rapture and also of those Scripture passages which leading proponents of the post-tribulation view have set forth.

The presentation does not claim to be exhaustive nor to include all arguments to establish the pre-tribulation view. Recognizing the criticisms of such men as Reese and Ladd that the pre-tribulation view is based solely on a dispensational interpretation of the Scriptures, Leon Wood very wisely omits such arguments. And yet he establishes strongly that portions of Scripture clearly teach the imminent pre-tribulation return of our Lord, and that Scripture properly understood does not and cannot teach that the tribulation will preceed our Lord’s sudden coming in the air.

As published the book is simple enough for any layman to follow its presentation. It has not lost in its popular presentation the solid

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exegetical foundation nor scholarly approach in which it was first prepared. We feel there would be real benefit if the entire work of Leon Wood on this subject were in printed form.

W. V.

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