The pre-tribulation Rapture the belief that Jesus will secretly return to evacuate Christians before a period of great tribulation is the single most recent major doctrine in Christianity. No Church Father taught it. No medieval theologian. Not Luther. Not Calvin. Not Wesley. Nobody until John Nelson Darby in 1830. One man invented it. One Bible (the Scofield Reference Bible, 1909) spread it to millions. And novels and movies turned it into the default eschatology of American evangelicalism. This video traces the full history and reveals the one Greek word in 1 Thessalonians 4 that Rapture theology completely ignores.
SCRIPTURE REFERENCES
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 - “Caught up to meet the Lord in the air”
John 14:2-3 - “I go to prepare a place for you”
Revelation 3:10 - “I will keep you from the hour of trial”
1 Corinthians 15:51-52 - “Changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye”
Matthew 25:6 - The virgins go out to MEET the bridegroom (ἀπάντησις)
Acts 28:15 - Believers go out to MEET Paul and escort him into Rome (ἀπάντησις)
Matthew 24:30-31 - The Son of Man coming with power and great glory
SCRIPTURE REFERENCES
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 - “Caught up to meet the Lord in the air”
John 14:2-3 - “I go to prepare a place for you”
Revelation 3:10 - “I will keep you from the hour of trial”
1 Corinthians 15:51-52 - “Changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye”
Matthew 25:6 - The virgins go out to MEET the bridegroom (ἀπάντησις)
Acts 28:15 - Believers go out to MEET Paul and escort him into Rome (ἀπάντησις)
Matthew 24:30-31 - The Son of Man coming with power and great glory
Revelation 1:7 - “Every eye will see Him”
