“The separation spoken of by premillenniallists - the Rapture - is not in accord with the parables of the kingdom [Matt. 13:24-30]. The Rapture comes at the end of time. The ‘wheat’ cannot be removed from the field until that final day, when we are caught up to meet Christ in the clouds (1 Thess. 4:17). There is indeed a Rapture, but it comes at the end of time - when the reapers (angels) harvest the wheat and the tares. There is a Rapture, but it is a postmillennial Rapture.” - David Chilton, Days of Vengeance, pg. 635. Notice that the gathering of the tares precedes the gathering of the wheat in Matt.13:30, in clear contrast with the Dispensationalist notion of the Rapture. The unrighteous are gathered first, not the righteous. And this occurs in one single gathering at the end of history.
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