For those who won’t take the time to read the source:
“Following is a brief explanation, summarized from the book, describing how we got the doctrine.
To understand, we must return to the 19th century British Isles. In 1830 in Port Glasgow, Scotland, Margaret Macdonald expressed her belief that scripture taught that Christians would be raptured, or translated, from the earth before the Great Tribulation. This is the first time that anyone in Christian history had distinguished two stages of the Second Coming: the first stage, in which Christians are taken out, and the second stage, in which Jesus returns to earth.”
It started with Margaret Macdonald (who is????). I grew up in a Schofield Independent Baptist church and went to a Calvinist college, thank God. Now when I read the Bible I know to never take it apart, but read it as a whole. Especially in this regard. I am a post-tribulationist and believe the first resurrection will occur at the end of the tribulation as is explicitly stated in Revelation.
I always wonder how anything dreamed up in the past 170 years could be taken as gospel......