The quotation by Grant Jeffrey has been shown by many Bible Scholars to be a fake.
Ed Tarkowski states,
"For all the saints and elect of God are gathered, prior to the tribulation that is to come, and are taken to the Lord lest they see the confusion that is to overwhelm the world because of our sins" (Pseudo-Ephraem).
I do not believe in reinventing the wheel (though I sometimes do [said with a smile], but I can find no better documentation that refutes the idea of pretrib rapture in the above quote from Pseudo-Ephraem than that which is written at Pseudo-Pseudo-Ephraem: Grant Jeffrey II, the Sequel! By Tim Warner. At first appearance the above quote appears to emphatically point to support a Pretribulation rapture by Pseudo-Ephraem, which was written sometime around 373 AD. However, the date itself is speculative and scholars are unsure of when this document was written, dating it anywhere from 374 and 627 AD. There is a lot of unsureness of the document and its author, making it a poor measure of truth concerning the second coming of Christ. Warner states,
The quotation Jeffrey referred to is from a document called "Pseudo-Ephraem." The prefix "pseudo—" means "false" or "falsely ascribed to—." Scholars doubt this document is genuinely from the hand of Ephraem of Syria, or that it was written in the fourth century. It was most likely written much later by an anonymous author, who falsely ascribed it to Ephraem the Syrian. So, when Jeffrey wrote "I believe Ephraem the Syrian's A.D. 373 manuscript, On the Last Times, the Antichrist and the End of the World...", he has already mis-represented his evidence, and demonstrated the same kind of "spin" that is evident in his other claims. This sermon was neither written by Ephraem the Syrian nor was it written in A.D. 373! And Jeffrey knows this! Ephraem's genuine writings, contained in the Post-Nicene Fathers collection, display no hint of pre-tribulationism."
A total Refutation of Grant's misrepresentation and twisting of this document can be found at http://www.geocities.com/~lasttrumpet/ephraem1.html
Ed Tarkowski states,
"For all the saints and elect of God are gathered, prior to the tribulation that is to come, and are taken to the Lord lest they see the confusion that is to overwhelm the world because of our sins" (Pseudo-Ephraem).
I do not believe in reinventing the wheel (though I sometimes do [said with a smile], but I can find no better documentation that refutes the idea of pretrib rapture in the above quote from Pseudo-Ephraem than that which is written at Pseudo-Pseudo-Ephraem: Grant Jeffrey II, the Sequel! By Tim Warner. At first appearance the above quote appears to emphatically point to support a Pretribulation rapture by Pseudo-Ephraem, which was written sometime around 373 AD. However, the date itself is speculative and scholars are unsure of when this document was written, dating it anywhere from 374 and 627 AD. There is a lot of unsureness of the document and its author, making it a poor measure of truth concerning the second coming of Christ. Warner states,
The quotation Jeffrey referred to is from a document called "Pseudo-Ephraem." The prefix "pseudo—" means "false" or "falsely ascribed to—." Scholars doubt this document is genuinely from the hand of Ephraem of Syria, or that it was written in the fourth century. It was most likely written much later by an anonymous author, who falsely ascribed it to Ephraem the Syrian. So, when Jeffrey wrote "I believe Ephraem the Syrian's A.D. 373 manuscript, On the Last Times, the Antichrist and the End of the World...", he has already mis-represented his evidence, and demonstrated the same kind of "spin" that is evident in his other claims. This sermon was neither written by Ephraem the Syrian nor was it written in A.D. 373! And Jeffrey knows this! Ephraem's genuine writings, contained in the Post-Nicene Fathers collection, display no hint of pre-tribulationism."
A total Refutation of Grant's misrepresentation and twisting of this document can be found at http://www.geocities.com/~lasttrumpet/ephraem1.html
