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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).
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.
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 .
The idea of a rapture as it is defined in dispensational premillennialism is not found in historic Christianity and is a relatively recent doctrine originating from the 1830s. The term is used frequently among fundamentalist theologians in the United States . [ 2 ]
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 ...
Dispensationalism developed as a system from the teachings of John Nelson Darby (1800–1882), considered by many to be the father of dispensationalism. [22]: 10, 293 Darby strongly influenced the Plymouth Brethren of the 1830s in Ireland and England. The original concept came when Darby considered the implications of Isaiah 32 for
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Historically, however, they have been premillennial dispensationalists believing in a pretribulation rapture. [137] Pre-tribulation rapture theology was popularized extensively in the 1830s by John Nelson Darby, [138] and further popularized in the United States in the early 20th century by the wide circulation of the Scofield Reference Bible ...