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The Rapture has not happened and will, in fact, never happen. Barbara R. Rossing (The Rapture Exposed) says the 'Rapture' is a theological invention of John Nelson Darby, the nineteenth-century founder of the Plymouth Brethren. Although few people belong the the Plymouth Brethren Church, many Christians believe in its founder's most enduring theological creation, the Rapture.
Rossing says that according to one critic, the Rapture has its origins with a young girl's vision. In 1830, in Port Glasgow, Scotland, fifteen-year-old Margaret MacDonald attended a healing service. There, she was said to have seen a vision of a two-stage return of Jesus Christ. The story of her vision was adopted and amplified by Darby. The belief that Jesus will come again was not new, and Christians have always taught that Jesus will return to earth and that believers should live in anticipation of his second coming. Darby's new teaching was that Christ would return twice, first in secret to "Rapture" his church out of the world and up to heaven, then a second time after seven years of global tribulation for non-believers, to establish a Jerusalem-based kingdom on earth (called the "Glorious Appearing" - a phrase from Titus 2:13).
John Nelson Darby has sunk into obscurity, apart from his followers in the Plymouth Brethren, and so should his theology. The Rapture has no genuine biblical support, so there is no good reason to believe there will ever be a Rapture or that the church and its members will be taken bodily up to heaven.
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∙ 10y ago
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∙ 10y agoA:
No, we can be sure it will never happen. The Rapture has its origins in the nineteenth century with John Nelson Darby, a British evangelical preacher and founder of the Plymouth Brethren. Although few people belong the the Plymouth Brethren Church, many Christians believe in its founder's most enduring theological creation, the Rapture.
The Rapture has no genuine biblical support, but Darby combed The Bible looking for isolated passages that could be used to support or prove the Rapture. As part of his hypothesis, John Darby invented "dispensations" - intervals of time ordering God's grand timetable for world events, but avoiding any commitment to when the Rapture would actually happen. Proponents admit that the dispensationalist system is not spelled out in any single passage in the Bible. Nevertheless they insist that a comprehensive system is necessary and that Darby's dispensationalism, with its divisions of history and its two-stage future return of Christ, is "the only system" that can make sense of otherwise contradictory biblical passages. Lindsey (The Rapture: Truth or Consequences, p57) argues that otherwise, "The Bible cannot be understood as a consistent and cohesive whole. The only alternative is to allegorize large portions of scripture . . . in order to keep the Bible from contradicting itself."
There is no good reason to believe in Darby's Rapture theology, or that the events portrayed by him will ever occur. John Nelson Darby has sunk into obscurity, apart from his followers in the Plymouth Brethren, and so should his theology.
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∙ 13y agoMany religions do not even believe in the rapture. You probably want to ask this question of your own religious leaders.
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∙ 14y agoYou're alive to ask this question so clearly it hasn't happened yet.
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Is 2012 the year the rapture happened?
A:Clearly not. The Rapture is a theological invention of John Nelson Darby, the nineteenth-century founder of the Plymouth Brethren. Darby did not predict a specific date for his 'Rapture', instead inventing 'dispensations' - intervals of time ordering God's grand timetable for world events, but allowing that the Rapture could occur at any future time. There will be no Rapture and therefore no timescale for the Rapture. John Nelson Darby has sunk into obscurity, apart from his followers in the Plymouth Brethren, and so should his theology.
When was the rapture?
It hasn't happened yet.When John Nelson Darby created the idea of the Rapture, in 1830, he was careful not to state when it would actually happen. Hal Lindsey, author of The Late Great Planet Earth and one of the principal modern proponents of the Rapture, decided that biblical prophecy required that it would occur within one generation, or forty years, of the founding of the state of Israel in 1948. Barbara R. Rossing (The Rapture Exposed) says that as 1988 approached, with no sign of the Rapture to come, Lindsey began to back off from that statement. Another proponent of the Rapture, Harold Campling, pinned down the actual date of the Rapture, in May 2011. When this month came and went, Campling changed his prophecy to October 2011. But still no Rapture.No, the Rapture hasn't happened yet. But hey, it was only an idea.
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