 not to be quickly shaken from your conviction or disturbed, whether by a spirit or a word or a letter as from us, as though the Day of Christ. But that would put the Rapture after the revelation of the man of sin and the abomination of desolationdefinitely not congenial to certain eschatological systems. An easy solution would be to change Christ to Lord in verse 2, but that would put the Rapture within the Day of the Lordalso not congenial. I submit that fine-tuning our view of eschatology is preferable to tampering with the Text. If the Restrainer in verses 6-8 is the Holy Spirit which seems to me to be the only adequate identification, then the Rapture happens before the abomination, and may be viewed as its trigger. But if the Day of Christ includes the Rapture, then verse 3 would appear to place the Rapture after the abomination. So where does that leave us? Although my own training was strongly pre-trib, I have moved to a meso-trib position. If the Rapture follows immediately upon the abomination, then the surprise factor remains untouched. If the abomination and the Rapture happen within minutes of each other, then from Gods point of view they form a single package, and the actual sequence is not importantfor all practical purposes they happen at the same time. has come. 