Biblical Support for the Pre-Tribulation Rapture

Dunno. But I've got the (dubious?) honour of being the EvC board member who probably lives closest to the source of the idea. John Darby's pulpit is only about 15 minutes drive from my house.

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John Nelson Darby, considered by many classical dispensationalists to be the father of dispensationalism, first proposed and popularized the pre-Tribulation Rapture in 1827. This view was accepted among many other Plymouth Brethren movements in England. Darby and other prominent Brethren were part of the Brethren Movement which impacted American Christianity, especially with movements and teachings associated with Christian eschatology and fundamentalism, primarily through their writings. Influences included the Bible Conference Movement, starting in 1878 with the Niagara Bible Conference. These conferences, which were initially inclusive of historicist and futurist premillennialism, led to an increasing acceptance of futurist premillennial views and the pre-Tribulation Rapture especially among Presbyterian, Baptist and Congregational members.

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