THE ELECT AND THE GREAT TRIBULATION by Charles Cooper

I have completed THE ELECT AND THE GREAT TRIBULATION by Charles Cooper. This is a book of theology defending the Pre-Wrath Rapture view. In it he puts forth two ideas that merit further study:

(1) Jerusalem is the Babylon of Revelation 17 and 18.

(2) The conventional wisdom on the ancient Babylonian calendar is wrong; it incorporates kings of Chaldea and Babylon that reigned concurrently. The Bible correctly lists all the kings that should be included in the chronology. Using the Biblical list of Babylonian kings allows us to: (a) determine the start of Daniel's 70 weeks with the decree of Cyrus as the Biblical text naturally states; (b) include the crucifixion in the 69th week while the clock is still ticking. (c) date all prophecies not from some arbitrarily conceived modern calendar projected into the ancient past, but from the Biblical account commencing with the date of creation.

Facinating book. I will be re-reading it soon to glean more out of it.