{"id":1086,"date":"2022-12-05T17:46:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T17:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isaacbest.com\/blog\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2023-12-09T17:50:31","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T17:50:31","slug":"book-review-not-as-a-thief-by-reginald-kimbro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/isaacbest.com\/blog\/2022\/book-review-not-as-a-thief-by-reginald-kimbro\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review &#8211; Not as a Thief by Reginald Kimbro"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In <em>Not as a Thief: A Historic Premillennial Perspective on the Rapture<\/em>, Kimbro does an excellent job demonstrating the utter lack of biblical evidence for a pre-tribulational rapture. He focuses on the timing of the rapture (as the title emphasizes) rather than the millennium, making this an excellent book no matter your millennial stance; I only recall one point where his premillennialism prevented him from fully considering the weight of a passage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, Kimbro is charitable without pulling any punches. He continually emphasizes that every position besides that of post-tribulationalism has the burden of proving that Christ will return more than a single time; this emphasis can seem a bit defensive at times, but he cogently argues his case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to understand the timing of the rapture better or are needing to defend your post-trib position, this is a great place to start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Not as a Thief: A Historic Premillennial Perspective on the Rapture, Kimbro does an excellent job demonstrating the utter lack of biblical evidence for a pre-tribulational rapture. He focuses on the timing of the rapture (as the title emphasizes) rather than the millennium, making this an excellent book no<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/isaacbest.com\/blog\/2022\/book-review-not-as-a-thief-by-reginald-kimbro\/\"> continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,34,42,13],"tags":[7,14,10,9,26,43,31,8],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-review","category-covenant-theology","category-eschatology","category-theology","tag-book-review","tag-church","tag-covenant-theology","tag-dispensationalism","tag-early-church","tag-eschatology","tag-hermeneutics","tag-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/isaacbest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/isaacbest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/isaacbest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isaacbest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isaacbest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/isaacbest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1088,"href":"https:\/\/isaacbest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions\/1088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isaacbest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/isaacbest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isaacbest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isaacbest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}