Five days ago, I submitted an article, A FALSE DOCTRINE, which is the belief in a pretribulation rapture, and today I want to provide information to amplify the evidence of this lie.
John Nelson Darby, an Anglo-Irish evangelist, introduced his secret rapture theory in 1827, which also includes the idea that there would be not one but two Second Comings of Jesus Christ. Between 1830 and to the early 1900s, this idea began to grow as prominent ministers began to teach and preach Darby's concept as if it were truth.
In 1909, C. I. Scofield published the Scofield Reference Bible and he added Darby's teaching to footnotes as if they were truth. As the Scofield Reference Bible grew in popularity, so did Darby's idea of a secret rapture theory. Teaching and preaching the rapture theory increased in churches, and then the theory was added to studies in Bible colleges and seminaries. More books and teaching guides were written and distributed, and movies have been made about this secret vanishing of Christian believers prior to the beginning of the tribulation.
Scofield also believed that the Lord's prayer of the New Testament is a Jewish prayer and should not be recited by Christians.
Today, millions of Christians are believers of the secret rapture theory, and, hopefully, God will lead them to learn the truth.
To be honest with you, I was shocked and stunned to learn of this truth, for I, too, believed in the rapture for more than thirty years. A few days ago, however, the Lord prompted me to take a closer look at this rapture idea, out of which He led me to see the truth: and it is in the Word of the Lord, the Holy Bible, where I learned this truth.
When in doubt, go to the Word of the Lord and you, too, will learn truth.
For Jesus said, Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. (Matthew 7: 15)
Amen.
John Nelson Darby, an Anglo-Irish evangelist, introduced his secret rapture theory in 1827, which also includes the idea that there would be not one but two Second Comings of Jesus Christ. Between 1830 and to the early 1900s, this idea began to grow as prominent ministers began to teach and preach Darby's concept as if it were truth.
In 1909, C. I. Scofield published the Scofield Reference Bible and he added Darby's teaching to footnotes as if they were truth. As the Scofield Reference Bible grew in popularity, so did Darby's idea of a secret rapture theory. Teaching and preaching the rapture theory increased in churches, and then the theory was added to studies in Bible colleges and seminaries. More books and teaching guides were written and distributed, and movies have been made about this secret vanishing of Christian believers prior to the beginning of the tribulation.
Scofield also believed that the Lord's prayer of the New Testament is a Jewish prayer and should not be recited by Christians.
Today, millions of Christians are believers of the secret rapture theory, and, hopefully, God will lead them to learn the truth.
To be honest with you, I was shocked and stunned to learn of this truth, for I, too, believed in the rapture for more than thirty years. A few days ago, however, the Lord prompted me to take a closer look at this rapture idea, out of which He led me to see the truth: and it is in the Word of the Lord, the Holy Bible, where I learned this truth.
When in doubt, go to the Word of the Lord and you, too, will learn truth.
For Jesus said, Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. (Matthew 7: 15)
Amen.
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