Lesson 6 Overview Quiz – The Rapture

1. According to the lesson, how much of the tribulation does the post-tribulation view say the church will see? *

A. None of it

B. Half of it

C. All of it

D. About three-quarters of it

2. Why does Dr. Woods prefer to call the "pre-wrath" view "three-quarters rapturism"? *

A. Because the label pre-wrath does not distinguish it, since every view considers itself pre-wrath

B. Because it denies the wrath of God

C. Because it is identical to the mid-trib view

D. Because it places the rapture before the church age

3. What does Dr. Woods say about being a "prepper"? *

A. That it always signals a post-trib position

B. That no Christian should own emergency supplies

C. That he owns supplies as common sense, not because he expects to enter the tribulation

D. That prepping proves the pre-trib view is false

4. How does Dr. Woods answer Rick Joyner's charge that pre-trib belief creates a "retreat mentality"? *

A. He agrees that pre-trib believers should withdraw from culture

B. He argues a pre-trib believer can be an activist who restrains evil, tied to the church as restrainer in 2 Thessalonians 2

C. He says culture cannot be influenced at all

D. He says only the tribulation can restrain evil

5. What logical fallacy does Dr. Woods say critics commit when they blame America's decline on the pre-trib rapture? *

A. Circular reasoning

B. Appeal to authority

C. A false-cause fallacy, like saying the rooster's crow causes the sunrise

D. Begging the question

6. Which pre-trib believers does Dr. Woods cite as proof that the doctrine does not produce political passivity? *

A. Jerry Falwell and Tim LaHaye

B. Origen and Augustine

C. William Lane Craig and N.T. Wright

D. Rick Joyner and Rick Wiles

7. How does Dr. Woods describe Barbara Rossing's claim that the rapture makes God abandon the world? *

A. As a fair summary of the pre-trib view

B. As a straw man that misrepresents what pre-trib teaching actually says

C. As a valid textual argument

D. As proof that the rapture is unbiblical

8. What is Dr. Woods's main criticism of William Lane Craig's argument against the rapture? *

A. That Craig denies the resurrection of Christ

B. That Craig ignores that the rapture and second advent are described differently, using the "ram, jam, and cram" method

C. That Craig relies too heavily on the Greek text

D. That Craig invented the pre-wrath view

9. How does Dr. Woods respond to N.T. Wright's objection to reading the passages literally? *

A. He says the passages were never meant to be read at all

B. He agrees they should be read symbolically

C. He notes that Christ's first-coming prophecies were fulfilled literally, so the second-coming ones should be too

D. He says literal interpretation always leads to post-tribulationism

10. What claim by Hank Hanegraaff does Dr. Woods specifically dispute? *

A. That Christ will return bodily

B. That the tribulation is seven years long

C. That the rapture happens in the twinkling of an eye

D. That Israel and the church are not distinct peoples