Thanks for the article! I completely agree with your analysis and was not aware of the (few) early views of a pre-trib rapture. It might be better to say that a pre-trib rapture was popularized through the Scofield Reference Bible.
Appreciate that! I only read your article after publishing my own, and was pleased to see others on the same wavelength.
Yes indeed, I don’t see too many people mentioning these (very sparse) early references, but I thought them best to note, as to avoid strawmanning. I don’t find them particularly convincing, however (as I said).
But yes, the statement that the rapture was ‘invented’ alongside the dispensationalist framework is not quite true. Though I’m also not quite sure how it really fits within the earlier amillennial consensus of the church… (my hunch is that it simply doesn’t). I hope to explore that further in the next one.
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Thanks for the article! I completely agree with your analysis and was not aware of the (few) early views of a pre-trib rapture. It might be better to say that a pre-trib rapture was popularized through the Scofield Reference Bible.
Appreciate that! I only read your article after publishing my own, and was pleased to see others on the same wavelength.
Yes indeed, I don’t see too many people mentioning these (very sparse) early references, but I thought them best to note, as to avoid strawmanning. I don’t find them particularly convincing, however (as I said).
But yes, the statement that the rapture was ‘invented’ alongside the dispensationalist framework is not quite true. Though I’m also not quite sure how it really fits within the earlier amillennial consensus of the church… (my hunch is that it simply doesn’t). I hope to explore that further in the next one.