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If a person can read...and understand...exactly where FALSE DOCTRINE comes from, it's amazing that they CANNOT LET IT GO!

The issue of the "rapture" and the "7-year tribulation" is one that is EASILY SEEN as not at all Biblical, but there are those who, in spite of being shown differently, STILL STICK TO THAT FALSE DOCTRINE.

INSANITY is generally defined as "doing the same thing over, and over...and expecting a different result".

And I see Christians doing this compulsively. In spite of being given EVIDENCE of following wrong doctrine, they continue studying it, trying to prove it, and preaching it.....even if they have to make up THEIR OWN truth by combining scriptures that don't even go together. THAT IS INSANITY!


Good article, and lots of information, on the origins of this FALSE DOCTRINE:


http://www.bible.ca/rapture-origin-john-nelson-darby-1830ad.htm


PIECE OF THE ARTICLE IN THE LINK


Rapture doctrine invented by John Nelson Darby in 1830:

1. John Nelson Darby invented the false doctrine of the Rapture 1830-1833 AD and popularized it in 1850 to which it infected us today. While Morgan Edwards had also invented the doctrine in a college essay in 1744 AD, his work was isolated, forgotten and irrelevant as an etiology of the modern popularity of pre-tribulation Rapture doctrine. Darby invented the doctrine without any influence or reliance on Edwards.

2. Morgan Edwards wrote this short essay as a paper for Bristol Baptist College in Bristol England in 1744. After he immigrated to the USA, the essay was published in Philadelphia in 1788. It is clear that his school paper went as unnoticed as his formal publication in 1788 AD. While Edwards may in fact be the earliest person on earth to invent the pre-tribulation rapture, it is equally clear that Darby invented the same doctrine in 1830 AD and made it popular 100 years later in 1850 AD. "The distance between the first and second resurrection will be somewhat more than a thousand years.: I say, somewhat more; because the dead saints will be raised, and the living changed at Christ's " appearing in the air" (1 Thes. iv, 17); and this will be about three years and a half before the millennium, as we shall see hereafter: but will he and they abide in the air all that time? No: they will ascend to paradise, or to some one of those many " mansions in the father's house of God" (John xiv: 2), and to disappear during the foresaid period of time. ... V. That spot of earth which. Christ will make the seat of his governments Mount Zion, in Jerusalem. Jerusalem and the temple will be rebuilt, as we shall prove by and by and that temple will be the house of Christ kingdom. ... VI. The risen and changed saints shall reign with Christ on earth a thousand years. I do not mean that all will be kings; for some are to be Christ' s priests, some judges, some rulers over cities, some over his household, some over his goods, (as wee shall see anon) and some his special chorister and musicians. (Two Academical Exercises on Subjects Bearing the following Titles; Millennium, Last-Novelties, Morgan Edwards, 1744 AD, 1788 AD)

3. Darby notes that the doctrine "popped into his head" in 1830 AD. Before this, no one had ever heard of a secret rapture doctrine.

4. Darby is one of the founders of the "Plymouth Brethren" movement at the same time he first conceived his rapture theology. Therefore the Plymouth Brethren are inseparable from Rapture theology and always will be and should be avoided.

5. Modern influences of Darby include Dallas Theological Seminary, Bob Jones University, Hal Lindsey, Tim LaHaye, Jack Van Impe and Harold Camping, the Scofield Reference Bible.

6. Darby's Rapture theology has infected almost every conservative protestant church, except for a few groups like the Churches of Christ, who rejected it as a non-Biblical doctrine and have denounced it ever since like all other man made doctrines.

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As with all articles written by "man", it's best to "eat the meat and spit out the bones" (I heard that one from Steven....wise man!) I did find a "bone or two"...but nothing that affects the teaching. And it does give lots of insight....and truth.

One is that I would NEVER advise anyone to go to church to learn doctrine...because that's where ALL wrong doctrine originates.

Arlene