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Eebs,
By:Linda Tx
Date: Tuesday, 7 February 2006, 5:50 pm
In Response To: Pre-trib rapture (EBW)

It sounds to me like it's saying that the idea came from Edward Irving.

Or am I reading blond again?

> The whole pre-trib secret rapture idea
> started with a prophecy from a 15 year old
> girl in Scotland who was dabbling in
> spiritism and seances.

>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_McDonald
> In fact the church she attended was itself
> into all sorts of dark magick. It actually
> studied the Kaballah.

>
> http://www.truth-not-tradition.com/content/singles/Church
> %20History%20Pre-Trib%20And%20The%20Occult_1099.html

> John Nelson Darby later latched onto the
> pred-trib idea because it gave him a way to
> pretend that certain prophecies about
> "God's elect" "Christ's
> elect" and the kingdom of Christ on
> earth would be fulfilled not by the church,
> but by the Jews.

> There really is no valid scriptural support
> for the pre-trib doctrine, but
> Dispensationalists can't let go of it,
> because if they do, their whole house of
> cards comes tumbling down.

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