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88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988. Predicted that the Rapture would occur in 1988. Whisenant, Edgar C. (1989). The Final Shout: Rapture Report 1989. Predicted that the Rapture would occur in 1989. Whisenant, Edgar C. (1993). 23 Reasons Why a Pre-Tribulation Rapture Looks Like it will Occur on Rosh-Hashanah 1993.
The Rapture is an eschatological position held by some Christians, particularly those of American evangelicalism, consisting of an end-time event when all dead Christian believers will be resurrected and, joined with Christians who are still alive, together will rise "in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air."
Adventism has its roots in the teachings of the Baptist preacher William Miller. He first predicted that the Second Advent of Christ would occur before March 21, 1844. [1] When that date passed he revised his prediction to April 18, 1844. [2] After that date also passed, another Millerite, Samuel S. Snow, derived the date of October 22, 1844. [3]
To God Be The Glory! (2008) - a follow-up to the book We Are Almost There! [99] Tracts. The End of the World is Almost Here! Holy God Will Bring Judgment on May 21, 2011 (2009) [100] God Gives Another Infallible Proof That Assures the Rapture Will Occur May 21, 2011 (2009) [101] No Man Knows the Day or the Hour? (2009) [102]
There have been attempts to identify the origin of Darby's concept of the rapture – the belief that a core of Christian believers who have died will be raised from the dead, and believers who are still alive and remain shall be "caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air" (1 Thess 4:17) in conjunction with the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
Between 1831 and 1844, on the basis of his study of the Bible, and particularly the prophecy of Daniel 8:14 [5] —"Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed"—William Miller, a rural New York farmer and Baptist lay preacher, predicted and preached the return of Jesus Christ to the earth.
John Flipse Walvoord (May 1, 1910 – December 20, 2002) was a Christian theologian, pastor, and president of Dallas Theological Seminary from 1952 to 1986. He authored over 30 books, focusing primarily on eschatology and theology, including The Rapture Question, and was co-editor of The Bible Knowledge Commentary with Roy B. Zuck.
Pre-tribulation rapture theology originated in the eighteenth century, with the Puritan preachers Increase Mather and Cotton Mather, and was popularized extensively in the 1830s by John Nelson Darby [102] [103] and the Plymouth Brethren, [104] and further in the United States by the wide circulation of the Scofield Reference Bible in the early ...