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that He was to be withdrawn as the Indweller of Christ‘s own, before the desired

conclusion of the rapturists could be arrived at. But it could as well mean that in the
latter days of Apostasy the Holy Spirit would gradually recede in His active
conviction of the sons of men, as in the former days before the flood God said: ―My
Spirit shall not always strive with man!‖

Assumption number one, then, is that the Holy Spirit is referred to. Assumption
number two is that He is referred to as the Indweller of His people and not as the
Convicter of the world. Do you see then, dear reader, that even if the translation were
right, one would have to allow of two unproven premises before we could begin to

conclude that the rapture of the church was being taught in this passage. Such is the
woeful weakness of the position of the pretribulation rapturist, when this scripture has
to be his Golden Text.

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