nIn the late 1990s, Robert Van Kampen and Marvin Rosenthal introduced the pre-wrath rapture view, a new understanding of the time of Gods rescue of His church from the worldwide Day-of-the-Lord wrath. Positioned between the traditional mid-tribulation and post-tribulation views of Christs return, the pre-wrath rapture places the rapture after most the seven-year 70th week of Daniel but before God unleashes His final wrath. The author, a longtime friend of Van Kampen and Rosenthal, has interacted extensively with the pre-wrath rapture theory since its inception and now offers an authoritative and biblical critique of this recent addition the prophetic landscape.