Ron Schofield This may bring some clarity, for me it did: kennethdahl/allthesethings.pdf ^a brief excerpt: There is no known writing or any kind of reference by ANY writer about a pretribulation rapture prior to the year 1830? The origin of this belief actually began with a fifteen-year-old girl named Margaret MacDonald in the town of Port Glasgow, Scotland. In 1830 she had a dream that Christians were raptured just before the “Great Tribulation” in Matthew chapter 24. A Presbyterian pastor in England, Edward Irving, heard about this dream and started teaching it in his church. These are well-known, credible reports among any scholar of eschatology. John Nelson Darby, the founder of the Plymouth Brethren, also started preaching this new doctrine after visiting the girl with the strange dream or vision. By 1917, C. I. Scofield had published his “improved edition” of the Scofield Reference Bible (which contained these pre-tribulation teachings). Before long, Bible Colleges like the Moody Bible Institute and Dallas Theological Seminary became staunch promoters of the doctrine. In 1970 Hal Lindsey popularized this doctrine via his book entitled The Late Great Planet Earth. Other people wrote more books, and started teaching this very young philosophy as biblical truth. We are all familiar with Tim LaHayes left behind books and movies... Many Christians have long since accepted it as biblical, just because they were told it is. However, Jesus Himself is found telling God… “I do not ask Thee to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one.” (John 17:15)
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 10:03:43 +0000
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