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Date Posted: 08:16:22 07/24/05 Sun
Author: David
Subject: The "Rapture Lie"

The "rapture theory is based on a system of
>prophetic interpretation invented by Jesuit Francisco
>Ribiera, known as the Futurist School of
>interpretation. Ribiera taught that the antichrist
>was to be some future superman who would appear near
>the end of time and continue in power for three and a
>half years.
> It is Ribiera's clever, unscriptural theory which
>has been resurrected by modern evangelical Protestant
>Christians. And today millions of Baptists,
>Methodists, Pentecostals, etc., hold this
>anti-Protestant concoction of the Jesuits as some kind
>of infallible doctrine.
> In the early 1800s the futurist view of Jesuit
>Ribera passed through certain refinements and
>additions, including the seven-year tribulation and
>the snatching away of the saints. For the first time,
>it was espoused by Protestant teachers who were
>seeking ways of reconciliation with Rome.
> Through the influence and writings of John Nelson
>Darby of the Plymouth Brethren Church in England, the
>new doctrine spread to the United States. During the
>middle and latter nineteenth century, it received its
>biggest boost from Cyrus Scofield, who incorporated it
>into the notes of his Scofield Reference Bible
>published in 1909
> The only thing "Left Behind" in the rapture theory
>is (THE TRUTH)!!!!

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