Do those verses actually mean that?

I recently saw a post on social media where someone was trying to make a case for pre-tribulation dispensational premillennialism. As someone who, after careful study, leans toward historic premillennialism myself, I figured I would look at the verses this individual cited and show how, while they may be used to support a pre-trib view, they do not necessarily support such an eschatology.

Below is the text of his post in italics, with my commentary interspersed in bold.

Friends? Here are how end times will happen- always remember this: the Antichrist WILL NOT be revealed until AFTER the rapture
- if the rapture happens? As a true Christian? You will be gone

Another argument for cessationism that fails

The other day, I saw the following posted on Facebook by the producers of the Cessationist movie:

In Matthew 24:1-3a it says, “Jesus came out from the temple and was going away when His disciples came up to point out the temple buildings to Him. And He said to them, “Do you not see all these things? Truly I say to you, not one stone here will be left upon another, which will not be torn down.” As He was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things happen…?”

Arguments from Grammar that Simply Don't Work

Recently in a Facebook conversation about the nature of the gift of tongues, one detractor of tongues posted:

Paul seems to use the singular tongue to distinguish the counterfeit gift of pagan “gibberish” and the plural to indicate the genuine gift of actual foreign languages. Again no mention of prayer or private prayer language. All the gifts are to edify the body, so when Paul states in verse 4 “He who speaks in a tongue (singular) edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church.”, he is saying that when someone speaks in gibberish, he only edifies himself which is not the Gift of Tongues (actual language which edifies the body).

The Way We Do Something Matters As Much As What We Do

Attack positions, not people.

When you mock a politician’s ethnic heritage, manner of speaking, or even the way they laugh, you come off more like a middle school bully than someone who has a grasp of the actual issues at hand. It makes you look mean and petty, and implies that you cannot make an actual reasoned argument, so you have to resort to ad hominem attacks. 

Every human being, no matter how out there their ideology may be, is a soul bearing the imago Dei, the image of God, and an individual for whom Christ died. 

Christians, above all, should recognize this and act, live, talk, and write accordingly. No matter how much others lower the level of discourse, we should raise it.

Preachers who are reading this: you don’t appreciate it when people take one phrase or sentence out of your sermon and use it to imply you said something you weren’t really trying to say. Show others the same courtesy you want people to show you, regardless of how vehemently you disagree with them on issues and ideologies.

Christ calls us to a higher way.