Very informative post providing factual origination and problem with born-again Christian escapism mentality.
American evangelical Christians are not seen as rational or constructively engaged in problem solving by much of the world because “the care not about things of this world - give all problems to jesus” didn’t work out so well for hundreds of millions of victims of war, genocide, disease, and starvation.
Living and standing up to violent bullies is hard bloody work.
Europeans ask, where was god when he allowed Nazis and Communists to murder 60+ Million European souls in the 20th century?
They don’t see that their society’s rebellion against god’s moral instruction (not to be confused with corrupt Catholic church dogma and attrocities) resulted in tragic human travesties.
Christians would be better off being constructively engaged seeing to it we have moral governance on earth, rather than erroneously proclaiming they have their own end-game escape ticket.
RE: “A guy by the name of Darby conjured it up using vague references in the NT. Then the Scofield reference Bible enlarged on it. Some churches are so radical on it that to not believe in it you’re banned. The main problem is people are so caught up in the concept they loose focus of Yeshua and His teachings and of Paul’s writings. They feel that why should they bother with anything because they believe the Rapture is imminent.
One of their arguments is that they’ll be caught up in the air and forever be with Christ. If I was coming to someones house and they come out to meet me, we all don’t go back to where I live but to enter their house to where I’m coming.”
And G-d asks "were was man?