Joseph Prince’s use of Romans 5:9 about God’s wrath that excuses us from tribulation is erroneous

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Joseph Prince’s use of Romans 5:9 about God’s wrath that excuses us from tribulation is erroneous By Rev George Ong

In a weekly Sunday sermon aired on YouTube on 19 Feb 2023, 3 days ago, Joseph Prince said; 0:11 – 0:30 mins

Joseph Prince argues this way – that since we are not appointed to wrath, and wrath equals tribulation, we will be raptured out of this world before the 7-year tribulation begins.

Here Joseph Prince has blatantly added to the word of God again.

He has replaced the word ‘wrath’ with ‘tribulation’ in Romans 5:9:

Romans 5:9 NKJV
9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.

If Joseph Prince really knows his English, he ought to know that “wrath’ is not only spelt differently from ‘tribulation’, it also does not have the same meaning as ‘tribulation’.

They are two different words, with different meanings, and they aren’t synonymous.

Since Joseph Prince often uses the Greek language in his teaching to impress his audience, does he not know that the Greek words for wrath and tribulation are represented by 2 different Greek words?

The Greek word for wrath is ‘Orge’.
The Greek word for tribulation is ‘Thlipsis’.

If that is so, how can the 2 different English words and 2 different Greek words (wrath and tribulation), have the same meaning and be used interchangeably?

While it is true that Romans 5:9 states that believers are not appointed to God’s wrath, it requires a leap of logic for Joseph Prince to go on to say that this verse then justifies the removal of the Church from the earth in the Pre-trib rapture to escape tribulation, even though the word or idea of ‘rapture’ or ‘tribulation’ is not even found in the verse.

In order to support the Pre-trib doctrine, Joseph Prince has assumed that the word ‘wrath’, in Romans 5:9, means ‘tribulation’.

It is an unwarranted biblical assumption because not a single passage in all of scripture defines tribulation as God’s wrath.

In summary, Joseph Prince’s teaching that believers will be raptured before tribulation based on God’s wrath in Romans 5:9 is untenable and must be rejected.

The simple reason is that God’s wrath is never equated with tribulation in the scriptures.

Furthermore, while Joseph Prince shows you Romans 5:8-10, he ‘hides’ from you Romans 5:3-5, just a few verses before.

First, Paul never teaches from Romans 5:9 that we can escape tribulation, but Joseph Prince does.

Second, Paul, in the same passage in Romans 5:3, exhorts us to not only bear with tribulation but also to glory in them,

Yet, Joseph Prince doesn’t.

The decisive argument against Joseph Prince’s teaching that the Church will escape tribulation is the teaching from the Lord Jesus Himself in John 16:33 NKJV.

The Apostle Paul (and Barnabas) agrees with the teachings of Jesus when he says in Acts 14:22 KJV, “… we must through much tribulation (thlipsis) enter into the kingdom of God.”

Note that the Greek word, ‘thlipsis’ for tribulation used in both John 16:33 and Acts 14:22 is the same word used in many passages in the New Testament for ‘tribulation’, especially in Matthew 24:29 (30-31 too), the key text of Post-trib rapture – that the church will be raptured after tribulation.

It is also the same word used in Revelation 7:14 NASB: … “These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation (thlipsis),

Revelation 7:14 is another key text of Post-trib rapture – that the church will go through tribulation and come out victorious from it.

Paul said that we are appointed to tribulation and that we will suffer tribulation in 1 Thessalonians 3:3-4 DRA.

Then Paul confidently concluded in Romans 8:37-39 that nothing, not even tribulation, can separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

What this means is there is no power in the Antichrist that is stronger than the love and strength of Christ to empower us to endure the tribulation.

We can endure and even overcome any tribulation, including the great tribulation, because we are more than conquerors in Christ Jesus.

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