Posts Tagged ‘Rapture’

Did key elements of the doctrine of the pretribulational rapture originate with either Edward Irving (1792–1834) or the broader Irvingite movement and then stealthily incorporated into the theology of John Nelson Darby (1800–1882) and the Brethren? Dave MacPherson is convinced “that the popular Pre-Trib Rapture teaching of today was really instigated by a teenager in Scotland who lived in the early 1800’s,” who was connected with the broader Irvingite movement. This is the general thesis put forth in dozens of books and articles for many years. However, I do not believe that there is merit to such a position since Irving and his movement never taught pretribulationism and both come from very different eschatological systems. In fact, I believe it can be established that Darby first came to believe in both dispensational truth and pretribulationism by December 1826 or January 1827, before these other alleged sources even surfaced.

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In the past couple of weeks Brannon Howse, the host of Worldview Matters radio, interviewed Dr. Thomas Ice on his radio show. Tommy was critiquing the arguments of Dan Hayden, an advocate of the Pre-Wrath view, who had been interviewed by Brannon a few weeks earlier.

Tommy was interviewed twice. Click here for the first interview.  Click here for the second interview.