Pastor Robert MacGregor of Trinity Baptist Church in Toronto, Ontario, Canada does not preach a Pre-wrath rapture, though his son Bill MacGregor does. The New IFB has been very harsh in its denouncement of the pre-trib rapture and those who preach an imminent return of Christ.
In this video, Bill MacGregor says that the pastor believes in the Pre-Trib rapture: (Update 2019, video has been taken down)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNBzgs2nRUs
And Robert MacGregor preaches the imminent rapture in this message clip from yesterday (June 24)
Steven Anderson has this to say about the Pre-trib rapture: “Right now, every pre-tribulation rapture preacher ought to be ashamed and shaking in his bots because the battering ram of God’s word is coming to knock down that lying heresy! And to expose it for the lie that it is and that it’s never had any truth in it.”
Here is the church’s listing on the New IFB church directory:
MacGregor is called “The Lion of the New IFB” in the title of his sermon as posted by his son.
This should be a refreshing indicator that the so called, “New IFB” is not the regulated cult following of Pastor Anderson as many have suggested. Although most feel strongly about the topic, it is also clear with most that the matter is not a “deal breaker”. I assume that we are welcome by most in the NewIFB because we stand together on the main issues such as, confrontational soulwinning, hard preaching, KJV believing, reprobate decrying, Non-Zionist, clear and simple gospel without works of any sort, non-Bible college, non-moochinary evangelism.
I feel like this points out the double standards of the New IFB. On the one side, they claim to expel heretics, but they also call the Pre-trib rapture “heresy”, and allow it in. is that Biblical? Perhaps Pastor Anderson should retract his statement about it being “heresy.” Otherwise, what other heresies are A-OK in the New IFB?
There are two raptures.
One before, and one after the Tribulation?