Raptureless

I, Jonathan Welton, care more about truth than about money. I care more about releasing freedom than lining my pockets. My heart is to empower others and release the truth that sets people free. Please take the time to carefully read this free manuscript. Most likely you have not heard the contents of this material [...]

Jonathan Welton is a voice to the rising Church. We need his teaching gift stirring the Body of Christ to action. Here in Raptureless, Jonathan has revealed his scholarship and ability to communicate on issues pertinent to the issues facing today’s Church. Read it and be challenged. With this much evidence, the reader must make a decision. [...]

Contents Foreword by Introduction Chapter 1: How Did We Get Here? Chapter 2: The Rapture Chapter 3: The Great Tribulation Chapter 4: The End of the World Chapter 5: Melting Elements Chapter 6: The Antichrist Chapter 7: The Israel of God Chapter 8: The Kingdom Transition Chapter 9: The Kingdom Now Chapter 10: The Kingdom [...]

 Introduction My parents both graduated from a Pentecostal Bible College in the early 1970s. They attended classes during the era of the Jesus People Movement, the Vietnam War, and the epically bestselling Late Great Planet Earth by Hal Lindsey. During those turbulent times, my parents met and married. After they had my two older siblings, [...]

Chapter 1 How Did We Get Here?   When I was in my early teens, my brother worked at a Christian bookstore. He would often bring home the latest Christian movie releases, and we would enjoy getting to watch them long before others could. I remember when Veggie Tales first came out; what an amazing [...]

Chapter 2 The Rapture I used to be a counselor at an all-male Christian summer camp. The greatest prank of all time was the year when we raptured everyone! Well, not really, but that was the goal. As staffers, we had schemed and plotted that if the Camp Director ever left the campground long enough, [...]

Chapter 3 The Great Tribulation Over the last few years of traveling and teaching in many churches, I have heard some amazing stories. I remember one lady telling me that she was not able to shower without wearing a towel because she didn’t want to be raptured while naked. Another told me that she wouldn’t [...]

Chapter 4 The End of the World   In Matthew 24, we found that the disciples asked Jesus three questions: “Tell us,” they said, “when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?” (Matt. 24:3). As we saw in the previous chapter, in Matthew [...]

Chapter 5 Melting Elements For almost two decades, I believed that one day in the future the whole earth would be consumed by fire when Jesus returned. Considering that God had promised Noah that He wouldn’t use water to destroy the earth (see Gen. 9:11), I figured He would be able to destroy the earth [...]

Chapter 6 The Antichrist In my life, I have watched the meteoric rise of credit cards, cell phones, and the Internet. I have heard the preachers, authors, and bomb shelter-builders tell me that modern technology is paving the way for the antichrist to rule the world with his “mark of the beast” like in no [...]