tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7910285603688436691.post2689352484545439423..comments2023-04-16T13:28:54.517-05:00Comments on Gospel Of The Kingdom Of God: Six Points Of Doctrine Being Taught In ErrorGospel Of The Kingdom Of Godhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03666349436873149482noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7910285603688436691.post-52432217127566224552010-01-16T23:15:46.343-06:002010-01-16T23:15:46.343-06:00[Marvelous blog! You may enjoy this web article wh...[Marvelous blog! You may enjoy this web article which greeted my eyes not long ago.]<br /><br />In light of Bryon's accurate assessment of the Irvingites and their invisible pretrib rapture, I'd like to share some of the findings of historian (and documents "archaeologist") Dave MacPherson relative to "secrecy" which he says can refer to two different things: time and visibility. Before 1830 the only coming Christians looked for was the "every eye shall see him" second advent to earth - secret only in point of time. Enter Margaret Macdonald in 1830. She saw "the one taken and the other left" before "THE WICKED" [Antichrist] will "be revealed" - and added that her pretrib rapture would not be "seen by the natural eye" but only by "those who have the light of God within." Her rapture was doubly secret: at an unknown day and hour and also invisible to "outsiders." Desperate to eliminate Macdonald as the pretrib originator and the Irvingites as the first public teachers of pretrib, Darby defender Thomas Ice foolishly claims that they taught a secret POSTTRIB rapture (even though he knows that when Lindsey teaches "one taken" etc. before the Antichrist "is revealed" Lindsey is expressing the kernel of the pretrib view - what MM and the Irvingites clearly taught before Darby did!). As early as 1832, Irving's journal taught that only "to those who are watching and praying...will Christ be manifested...as the morning star. To the rest of the church, and to the world, this first appearance will be...unintelligible." Always trailing and "borrowing" quietly from the Irvingites, Darby in 1845 finally sounded like them when he wrote that "the bright and morning Star...is the sweet and blessed sign to them that watch...And such is Christ before He appears [at the final advent to earth]. The Sun will arise on the world....The star is before the [Sun], the joy of those who watch. The unwakeful world, who sleep in the night, see it not." (Darby's "Thoughts on the Apocalypse," p. 167) And Lindsey's "Late Great Planet Earth," p. 143, says that "the second coming is said to be visible to the whole earth (Revelation 1:7). However, in the Rapture. only the Christians see Him - it's a mystery, a secret." MacPherson's book "The Rapture Plot" has 300 pages of such documentation and he proves beyond any doubt that Macdonald was the first to "see" a secret, pretrib rapture, that the Irvingites soon echoed her in their journal (which Darby admitted he avidly read), and that Darby was last on all of the crucial aspects of dispensationalism. You may be saying, So What? Well, if the noisiest promoters of pretrib like to play games re church history in order to maintain their lucrative 19th century theory, can they convince us that they've never played a little fast and loose with Scriptural interpretation? Even the Word itself reveals the bad things as well as the good things about its heroes. Shouldn't we be as open and honest as the Word of God is? Just my thoughts.Maryleehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06908381142759295559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7910285603688436691.post-66665513120396745232010-01-15T15:57:19.975-06:002010-01-15T15:57:19.975-06:00Brother, I hope you will expand this and make it i...Brother, I hope you will expand this and make it into an e-book. The college students now are able to trade notes with Kindle and to purchase textbooks in e-book format.Man from Modestohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09443915193105012828noreply@blogger.com