THE ORIGIN OF THE SECRET RAPTURE DOCTRINE AMONG EVANGELICALS CAME FROM A 15 YEAR OLD UNINSPIRED GIRL, SO WHY THE HATEFUL ATTITUDE TO SIS WHITE WHEN SHE IS SO BIBLICAL AND MATURE IN HER SPIRITUAL JUDGEMENT
The following is an excerpt from the book "Are Evangelicals Born Again Christians" on the Secret Rapture. I quote:
"A man by the name of Edward Irving in the 1830’s first taught the secret rapture.
“And at this very time Irving heard what he believed to be a voice from heaven commanding him to preach the Secret Rapture of the Saints. Obeying this voice, he began to preach that Christ was to come TWICE ; first secretly for His saints: then after an interval of seven years— the reign of Antichrist—gloriously with His saints, to destroy Antichrist and to reign.” Duncan Mc Dougall, The Rapture of the Saints, pg. 21.
“I am not aware that there was any definite teaching that there would be a secret rapture of the church at a secret coming until this was give forth as an utterance in Mr. Irving’s church, from what was there received as being the Voice of a Spirit. But whether anyone ever asserted such a thing or not, it was from that supposed revelation that the modern doctrine and the modern phraseology arose. It came not from Holy Scripture, but from that which falsely pretended to be the Spirit of God.” Dr. Samuel P. Tregelles, The Hope of Christ’s Second Coming, pg. 35.
But Mr. Irving got his rapture theory from a 15 years old sickly Scottish girl in his congregation.
“...the new understanding of the rapture was the product of a prophetic vision given to a young Scottish girl, Margaret Mac Donald in 1830. She claimed special insight into the second coming and began to share her views with others.” Walter A. Elwell, editor, Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, pg. 908-909.
“The Mac Donald’s were a sickly family and Mac Pherson says that little Margaret was slowly dying of a terminal disease. In her bedroom she became the recipient of a series of prophetic revelations. Mac Pherson claimed that one of her revelations predicted that the true church would be raptured to heaven before the arrival of the Antichrist.” Mal Crouch, editor, Dictionary of Pre-millennial Theology, pg. 244.
Christ’s second visible coming shows no secret rapture. Rev. 6:14-17.
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