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To: fso301

There was no pre tribulation rapture philosophy before the 19th century.

Around 1830, Darby met fifteen-year-old Margaret Mac-Donald, who claimed to have had a private revelation of a secret rapture that would occur shortly. Not all Christians would be included in this rapture, however. Only certain especially faithful believers would be rescued.

From this beginning, Darby and his followers developed a system that taught that all true believers would be rescued in a secret rapture that was distinct from the second coming of Christ. Although they never state it in this manner, this amounts to two future comings of Christ, or at the very least, two stages of the second coming.

They justified this novel doctrine by claiming that, in the first stage, which was the secret rapture of only believers, Christ would not actually set foot on earth. Believers would “meet Him in the clouds” and go back to Heaven with Him before He touched down. There would be a “judgment” of Christians’ works at that time.


13 posted on 08/20/2021 3:00:24 AM PDT by Cronos ( One cannot desire freedom from the Cross, especially when one is especially chosen for the cross)
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To: Cronos

You lie. You have been shown the evidence of the pretrib notion in some of the early church fathers’ writings/sermons. Yet you CHOOSE to continue this lie. That make you a purposed LIAR>


79 posted on 08/26/2021 9:46:07 AM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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