Corrie Ten Boom, a Dutch Christian, was a woman who went through the Holocaust of Nazi Germany in the 1940s. Her father, family, and her were helping Jews to escape during that time and were caught by Nazi authorities and imprisoned. She survived! While there she encouraged many others by faith in God though also witnessing the death of many! In the after years of her life she spent much time to help and encourage fellow Christians, as well as to help prepare them for further trials that we, as God’s faithful, must witness along the way before we all reach the gates of Heaven!
In 1974 she wrote a letter to fellow Christians expressing a very real concern for the kind of teaching that was going on and becoming popular! One of the express teachings that she mentioned was the teaching of the rapture! Many Christians had been (and still are today) teaching that “the church” is going to be raptured away before ever having to face a terrible period of tribulation. In her letter she warned Christians about the dangers of this teaching! She noted how notions of an idea that we’d escape all the difficulties of life when close to God had severely failed Christians who had to go through the atrocities of the holocaust.
In her letter she also noted how Christians in China had been terribly misled by the false teaching that Christians would be “raptured” away before facing the Tribulation. Soon after they all faced terrible times of persecution and were virtually unprepared to do so! They had not properly prepared to face persecution because of false and pleasing fables! In reflection leaders said, “We should have made the people strong for persecution,” but how they had failed to do so.
You can read her letter here from this website, or view a PDF form of it here. Additionally, you can view a great Youtube presentation of it here. You can read more about Corrie Ten Boom Here.
Let’s take the warnings seriously and not be misled by false teachings or pleasing fables! Let us prepare properly for all that is ahead of us! For those who believe in the rapture theory, please also view the other scripture study blogs on this subject: A short article here and a more at length one here.
