Jaffar

We must go 1400 old age from the first reference of a pre-tribulation "catching away" before we happen another word about it, and the beginning we happen is not altogether convincing. The narrative travels that a Mr. Lewis Henry Morgan Jonathan Jonathan Edwards was in his 20's at the authorship of this paper, and wrote it for a college professor who wished Edwards to support the actual reading of Scripture, a procedure not in trend in that day. To make so, Lewis Henry Morgan invented "a new doctrine" which it looks he did not adopt for himself, but rather he theorized as an intellectual pursuit. He even used Acts Of The Apostles 17:19, 20 on his statute title page: "May we cognize what this new philosophy is of which you speak? For you are bringing some strange things to our ears." Lewis Henry Morgan actually quoted the words of heathen philosophers!

And Mr. Jonathan Edwards certainly would have got delighted the work force of Red Planet Hill, for not only makes he come up up with a pre-tribulation rapture, he also speculates that the lake of fire is in the moon, and that all planets in the solar system are inhabited. Some historiographers looking for the modern beginnings of pre-trib instruction price reduction Jonathan Edwards altogether.

So there is this fourth-century anchorite and a Book college pupil on duty assignment espousing the pre-trib view, and they lived 1400 old age apart. Not exactly a portion of the "stream of revelation" one would anticipate for such as a serious doctrine, if it be serious.

Historically, I propose that 1830 is a more than significant twenty-four hours of the month for the beginning of this philosophy . It was during this twelvemonth that 15-year-old Margaret Macdonald, a "prophetess" of the newly arising Pentecostalist motion in Scotland, uttered a vision that declared that Christians were to be raptured just anterior to the Great Tribulation.

This event surely do many, especially the Pentecostals of our ain day, to give pause. Surely if something was spoken by a "word from the Lord," one cannot take it lightly, they reason. Yet these same people would have got to take the words of Jesus and Alice Paul lightly, to believe Margaret. One sadly lacking gift in the detonation of personal appeal over the old age have been the gift of discernment, whereby vocalizations should, yea must, be challenged and compared to what Supreme Being have already said. And when it is discerned that misrepresentation is at hand, a additional understanding is needed, namely the identification of the spirit coming forth into the meeting and the subsequent renunciation of it along with the instruction it promotes. One doesn't

see this too often. It looks Margaret was not challenged then and is not now.

Within a twelvemonth or two afterwards, Presbyterian curate Prince Edward Irving, of "Irvingite" celebrity in Greater London (The Catholic Apostolic Church), heard about this dream, developed it theologically, and began instruction the pre-tribulation ecstasy to his congregation. By the clip dispensationalist Darby got clasp of it, it was already circulating fairly well. But Darby we will speak about another time.

For now, the point is made, I think, that the thought that Jesus will catch away His bride before problem interruptions out planet-wide, then come up back in 7 old age to put up His Kingdom, having left "tribulation saints" behind to be punished for their lackadaisical ways... historically, it's just not there.