The idea of a secret pre-tribulation rapture of the faithful Body of Messiah to heaven before a time of tribulation was a concept introduced in the 19th Century to wider Evangelical Christendom by John Nelson Darby in the 1830s, which developed this concept as part of his dispensational system of Eschatology.
It created in the minds of multitudes of Christians the idea of “imminence,” meaning for them that the Lord Jesus could return any moment to rapture His faithful Church and take them back to heaven.
This doctrine created the idea that the Lord Jesus would come two times, first for His Church to take them to heaven and then seven years later return with His Church. However, does God’s Word teach this?
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