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Article · RaptureThe Rapture: A Cumulative Biblical Case

Did Darby Invent the Pretribulation Rapture?

What the historical evidence proves—and what it does not

…etribulationism, but it can disprove a careless invention narrative. The event is ancient Tertullian, writing around the beginning of the third century, says that believers remaining at Christ's coming, together with the resurrected dead in Christ, will be "caught up in the cloud…

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Article · RaptureThe Rapture: A Cumulative Biblical Case

Every Christian Should Believe in the Rapture

The event is explicit; the real dispute is its timing

…corrects a frequent historical overstatement. Around the beginning of the third century, Tertullian repeated Paul's expectation that living believers and the resurrected dead would be "caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air" and described their destination as an "as…

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