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angrychair

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5. Yea and no

Reply to mwmisses4289 (Reply #3)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 04:03 PM

Monday

A guy with the last name Darby came up with the concept in 1830 but no one in Church of England was buying it so he came to America and by the 1860s it was picking up buy in from American Evangelicals and the concept of rapture made it into the Scofield Bible in or around 1870.

So that's how it all came to be.

There is no "rapture" or anything even "rapture"-like in the Bible.
Also should noted that the word "apocalypse" does not mean destruction or death. The literal translation of "apocalypse" is "to unveil" or "the unveiling" nothing more.

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