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We go to church and we hear fabulous teachings of a Rapture, however when we get home we can’t find the word. That is because the Rapture is not in the Bible and does not come from any Bible reference. It comes from the ecstatic utterances of Margaret MacDonald in 1830.
- Myths of the Origin of the Rapture
- MYTHS OF THE ORIGIN OF PRETRIBULATIONISM
- SCHOLARS REJECT THE BIG LIE
- IRVINGITES AND THE RAPTURE
Thomas D. Ice Liberty University, tdice@liberty.edu Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/pretrib_arch
Part II Thomas Ice Last issue I began a look at myths of the origins of the pre-trib rapture. This issue I conclude that study.
The various “rapture origin” theories espoused by opponents of pre-tribulationism are not accepted as historically valid by scholars who have examined the evidence. The only ones who appear to have accepted these theories are those who already are opposed to the pre-trib rapture. A look at various scholars and historians reveals that they think,...
One of Dave McPherson’s strangest claims is that Edward Irving and the Irvingites taught a pre-trib rapture. The Irvingites, are said by McPherson to be the source from which Darby clandestinely stole the doctrine and then claimed it as his own discovery.27 More recently, two British theologians have also cited Irving as the real source of dispens...
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Research shows; Miss Margaret Macdonald, an ill young girl from Port Glasgow, Scotland in the year 1830, was the first to speak of an any-moment return of Jesus, in a fever-induced vision.
In a paper dated Jan. 23, 1990, MacPherson touts himself as the ―world‘s leading authority on the origin of the Pre-Trib rapture theory: ―1830—―The Occult Connection‖—Darby didn‘t originate any rapture view in 1827 or any other year. Pre-Trib leaders know that Prior Rapturism began in 1830.
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Around 1830 however, a young woman (Miss Margaret MacDonald, according to some sources) claimed that the Holy Spirit had revealed to her that the true Church would be "raptured" (caught-up) to heaven BEFORE the tribulation. This "estatic utterance" gave birth to the modern doctrine of pretribulationalism and all its related phraseology.
Huebner provides clarification and evidence that Darby was not influenced by a fifteen-yea-old girl (Margaret Macdonald), Lacunza, Edward Irving, or the Irvingites. These are all said by...
By Dr. David R. Reagan. “The Pre-Tribulation Rapture is a johnny-come-lately idea that is too new to be true.” This is the most common argument that I encounter against the concept of the Rapture of the Church occurring before the Tribulation begins. There are several problems with this argument.
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