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THE SECRET RAPTURE PROVEN TO BE WRONG AND UNSCRIPTURAL

THE SECRET RAPTURE PROVEN TO BE WRONG AND UNSCRIPTURAL
Nyron Medina
Evangelicals claim that a secret rapture is to occur in which the Church is to be spirited away (caught up) to meet Jesus Christ all of a sudden.
“According to their theory the Lord is to come secretly for His saints: they are to be caught up (raptured) to meet Him in the air without the world knowing that anything is happening; all who are unprepared are to be left on earth in an unsaved state.” Duncan Mc Dougall, The Rapture of the Saints, pg. 1.
One of the two major texts that are used to prove a rapture, but does not really show it, rather it shows a public second coming of Christ which the world must see. 1 Thess. 4:15-17.
a. Who are they which remain? The remnant who keep the Law of God. Rev. 12:17.
b. They are a remnant because they are what remain from a persecution to death of the followers of Christ. Rev. 6:9-11; Rev. 15:2.
c. Who is the archangel? Jesus Christ of course. Dan. 10:5-9,21; Dan. 12:1; Jude. 9; Josh. 5:13-15; Ex. 23:20-23.
d. What does His voice say? Loud words that shakes the heaven and earth, thus people must know of His coming. Heb. 12:25,26; Rev. 16:17-21.
e. The trump of God is the trumpet sound, that is so loud that the world will know of the second coming of Christ. Matt. 24:31.
The other text that is used to teach the secret rapture heresy, but does not teach it on close examination is Matt. 24:36-44. All this text is used by Christ to teach is that some will be ready (those left back), but not a secret coming.
a. What does “watch” mean? 1 Pet. 4:7; 1 Thess. 5:6-9; Eze. 33:7.
b. What does the thief do? Jn. 10:10.
c. What does the house symbolize? The Church. Heb. 3:6.
The very same chapter of Mathew tells us that all the world will see Christ when He comes, not a secret coming. Matt. 24:23-28.
The sign of Jesus is to be seen when He is coming in the air, and the world will see and be terribly frightened. Matt. 24:30,31.
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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