Revelation has long fascinated Christians and I'm not immune to that fascination. What will happen? When will it happen? Will I be included? What/who should I believe about interpretations of Revelation. There are three trains of thought concerning the Rapture: pretribulationalists, posttribulationalists, and midtribulationalists. The authors analyze and explain each of these three views. The examination of the three views can sometimes seem overwhelming to the average Christian. I personally referred to my Bible, commentaries, and other texts about the book of Revelation. Bible scholars, I'm sure, will have no difficulty following the authors. I do find this book to be very helpful and highly thought provoking. There is a glossary and summary of the three views at the conclusion of the book, as well as references. This book has obviously been greatly researched.
I am rating this book 4 stars and highly recommend it to readers.
I received an ebook of this selections from netgalley and Harvest House Publishers in exchange for my honest review. I was not required to post a positive review. All opinions expressed are my own.

Although I found this book to be very informative and enjoyed reading about all the different beliefs people have about the rapture and if/when it will occur, I found it to be rather dry.

This book wasn't what I expected. I was hoping for a more signs of the times and how they correlate to today's happenings but instead I got a breakdown of the beliefs of the tribulation and why people believe that way.

Does the Bible teach the rapture of the Believers? When will it happen? Will we have any warning? What is the truth? How can we know? Does it matter? What does the Bible teach?
This book carefully compares the four main eschatological views. Each view is briefly explained, and then the challenges to each and their responses are looked at in the light of the Scriptures.
Hinson and Hitchcock are pretibulational premillenialists. That means they believe the saved will be raptured before God judges the world for seven years then returns to reign for a thousand years. This book defends that position both Biblically and historically.
The vocabulary of the book is a little hard at first, but they do a good job of defining terms and words that we don’t use every day, and at the end of the book, there is a very good glossary.
The authors conclude with the most important question of all. Are you ready to meet God be it by rapture or death? Do you know your sins are forgiven? Have you accepted Christ? Then they give a brief but clear Gospel presentation.
I really appreciated the kind balanced tone. The authors have firm well defined beliefs and they vigorously defend them, but they don’t demean or belittle those who disagree.
I received this as a free ARC from NetGalley and Harvest House Publishing. A positive review was not required and these are my honest opinions.

I have to confess that from the title and description i had i was expecting a book looking at the case for is there or isn't there a rapture. Having experienced teaching that the rapture is coming soon so be ready and this since the 80's I have recently heard a lot of people say there isn't going to be one or it's the bad guys who will be moving. This is a well written and extremely well researched book, but it is a powerful testimony for the pretribulation belief.
I guess if you go to a football match and ask a 1000 different people to give a report on the match you would have many different reviews of the same match and all totally honest in their own minds. The tribulation is obviously a lot more important situation but the reporting is likewise also very different even from people of the same belief hence the number of different comments from such a impressive list of people that you will find in this book.
None of this is meant as criticism (honest) I think this is a great book for those that want a well grounded and thought out and researched book and Mark has certainly done that and more. This is as strong a book as you will find anywhere on the pretribulation view and it is a book that it is focused on this and argued very very well from my view point.
I have been given a free copy of this book from NetGalley in return for a honest review.