John Hagee and Dr Charles Stanley also speak of the rapture as well as Messianic Pastors....
Perry Stone as well.
Hagee is wrong on so many things that it is difficult to separate truth from error when he speaks. E.g., his claim that Jesus was not the Messiah of Israel.
On the subject of the end times, Stanley (like many Southern Baptists) appears to just be regurgitating the pop pre-trib stuff that is floating around the ether.
Most messianic types have their own problems interpreting the Bible. The rapture theory is just one in a whole set of issues.
Perry Stone as well.
I’ve seen this annoying character on TBN. Again, like most pop futurists he is just regurgitating stuff that has been circulating for decades. Wake me up when anything he says comes to pass.
And so we find the "rapture ready" crowd consuming without question all the putrid, mind-numbing stuff that comes from the "prophecy preachers". They never stop to ask, "where is this all getting us? How is this advancing the work of the great commission?"
I find Stone to be the most compelling of all. His knowledge of ancient Israel and her traditions, tied with Biblical illustrations, is eye openning.
He recently has done a series on ancient Hebrew weddings and the Bible accounts of the Bride of Christ. Amazing.
Another FReeper turned me on to Joel Rosenberg. Definetly look into his stuff. He has a few novels out, I just finished The Ezekial Option. My first read of his novels. But Epicenter is his book describing Ezekial 38-39 and the coming war of Gog and Magog, on which his novels are derived. Very Good.
Perry Stone as well.
Perry Stone, he's the one I heard identify Ezekiel's "exceedingly great army" in the vally of dry bones prophecy with the Israeli Defense Force.
I'm sorry, but that's goofy.
As for John Hagee... (watch that, and tell us if you think Hagee's orthodox.)