The “rapture” was invented by a door-to-door Bible salesman during the Depression.
“After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.”
Um, so this salesman wrote the many passages in Paul’s letters which focus Christians upon the Rapture?
The Epistle of Baarnabas (AD100) contains the argument for a pre-trib Rapture. Irenaeus in his 'Against Heresies' addressed it. His follower, Hippolytus also addressed it. From the Eastern Church tradition, Ephraem of Nisibis (306-373AD) asserted it clearly in his 'On The Last Times'. Several teachers in the eighteenth century addressed it. And prior to Darby taking up the challenge, at least two others in the nineteenth century had raised the issue.