2025-01-01 21:20
The Rapture, as many believe it today, wasn’t part of Christianity for most of its history. It was invented in the 1830s by John Nelson Darby, a British preacher.
Darby’s idea of believers being taken to Heaven before a period of tribulation spread through dispensationalist theology and became popularized in the 20th century, thanks to tools like the Scofield Reference Bible and media like the Left Behind series.