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Lindsey proclaimed that the rapture was imminent, based on world conditions at the time. In 1995, the doctrine of the pretribulation rapture was further popularized by Tim LaHaye's Left Behind series of books, which sold close to 80 million copies and was made into several movies and four real-time strategy video games. [88]
This evangelist announced that "the world is going to go 'puff' and disappear" in September 1935. [106] 1936 Herbert W. Armstrong: The founder of the Worldwide Church of God told members of his church that the Rapture was to take place in 1936, and that only they would be saved. After the prophecy failed, he changed the date three more times ...
John Nelson Darby was born in Westminster, London, and christened at St Margaret's on 3 March 1801. He was the youngest of the six sons of John Darby and Anne Vaughan. The Darbys were an Anglo-Irish landowning family seated at Leap Castle, King's County, Ireland, (present-day County Offaly).
The End of the World October 21, 2011 [104] The Bible Reveals WE CAN KNOW May 21, 2011 is Judgment Day! [105] McCann continued to teach that October 21, 2011, would be the end of the world, even after the failed May 21, 2011 prediction. And after October 21, 2011, he taught that the end of the world would occur in March 2012. [106] [107]
In 1989, Whisenant published The Final Shout: Rapture Report 1989, updating his prediction to 1989. [34] 1993 Edgar C. Whisenant When his 1989 prediction failed, Whisenant predicted the Second Coming in 1993, publishing 23 Reasons Why a Pre-Tribulation Rapture Looks Like it will Occur on Rosh-Hashanah 1993. [35] 6 September 1994 Harold Camping
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The pretribulation rapture doctrine is the belief in a rapture, or gathering of the saints, that occurs before the Great Tribulation. [ 1 ] This view is generally associated with Dispensational premillennialism , and it was popularized in the 20th century by the Scofield Reference Bible .
Historic premillennialism is one of the two premillennial systems of Christian eschatology, with the other being dispensational premillennialism. [1] It differs from dispensational premillennialism in that it only has one view of the rapture, and does not require a literal seven-year tribulation (though some adherents do believe in a seven-year tribulation).