Monthly Archives: August 2007
On the Rapture and the Second Coming
The teaching of the Rapture as happening prior to the Tribulation at the end of time is now a remarkably well-accepted doctrine among mainline Evangelicals for having arisen only in the last two centuries, largely stemming from the ecstatic visions of a 15-year-old Scotch-Irish girl in 1830 and the writings of Hal Lindsey, a self-proclaimed [...]