Les Feldick Bible Study

What would happen if people read Paul on the Church and the Tribulation?

Reading Paul on the Church and the Tribulation would show that the Church will not go through the Tribulation. The Rapture, the outcalling of the Body of Christ, is strictly Pauline revelation. The Tribulation is God dealing with Israel, so the Church does not fit that scenario.

Les explains that many ignore the Apostle Paul and talk only about the Second Coming. Believers are concerned with the outcalling of the Body of Christ, the Rapture, which is strictly Pauline revelation. Before the Second Coming, the Church is taken out, because it will not fit the Tribulation scenario—like a square peg in a round hole. The Tribulation is God dealing with Israel and comes from Old Testament prophecy. Paul mentions it only in II Thessalonians 2, showing that after we depart, the man of sin appears. If people read Paul, they would stop sending material claiming the Church goes through the Tribulation, because Paul alone is the one through whom the secrets concerning the Church were revealed.