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What does Darby say about it?

It’s been a while since I read Darby’s work, but this was not an issue in the 19th century. People are much more likely to write about the things when they disagree. F.W. Grant and Ironside mentioned it. It became an issue when the meaning got flipped due to carelessness. Mid 20th century.

They did not think the rapture was imminent. Ironside said it could not happen before Israel was restored to their land in unbelief. They got this one right. Israel is restored. Part of the evidence for the rapture is that blindness happens to Israel until the “times of the gentiles” ends. It appears that we are in the “times of the gentiles” now. That is the “Church Age” Revelation 2 and 3 the things that are. How do you see it?

These ‘threads’ remind me of Job’s chatty friends .. for near 38 chapters they say on this hand or that ... Then the Heavenly Father steps in and clears the deck ..

“times of the gentiles” is what brings ‘Jacob’s trouble’... yes, we are in Jacob’s trouble... problem is few even have a clue who it is they are chatting about and over. There will be no rapture ... Christ is coming here, to God’s green earth to collect a harvest ... and ‘we’ are suppose to be ‘watching’ and waiting for His return... The first supernatural entity that gets dumped on this earth ... or ‘rises from the sea’, is the instead of fake Jesus... Christ said the majority of the inhabitants of God’s green earth will worship him.