In 1830, Margaret MacDonald was just a teenage girl. But after sharing several dreams with a preacher, she altered the course of Christian theology in a way that has permeated the culture for generations. It set things in motion that never should have been given life. It began as the recounting of a dream and turned into a lie that has been passed down through the years until the people telling it and teaching it believe it to be true.
Margaret MacDonald invented the pre-trib rapture – well, she had the dream that launched the lie. She shared the dream and a couple of preachers got ahold of it, giving it a life of its own.
The preachers John Darby, Edward Irving, and John Pusey twisted scripture to try and support the lie they had created from that little girl’s dream. They promptly created an entire doctrine around it, perverting scripture in an effort to give the lie validity.
And so, so many people were deceived. 
I grew up Baptist so “the rapture” was a really big deal. It never made sense to me though because I always asked who would teach the people left behind if all the “Christians” were raptured?
I was probably about 10 or so – about the same age I was when I got in trouble for questioning the trinity (that’s another story for another day).
The truth is, the pre-trib rapture cannot be supported by scripture – not if you read it in context. Further, you don’t see anyone in scripture who was snatched out of the jaws of adversity and persecution – who was “raptured out.”
Moses and the Israelites walked across the bed of the Red Sea. God did not snatch them up and put them in the Holy Land. They wandered in the wilderness for 40 years.
Noah and his family were not “raptured out” before the flood. They were on the ark going through the rain, the flood, all of it.
The three Hebrew boys were not “raptured up” when they were thrown into the furnace. No, they walked through the fire – but they weren’t alone.
The list goes on and on.
I remember when I was dating my husband (CW Mayberry) he once asked me what I thought about it (the pre-trib rapture). Now, mind you, I was coming out of years of seeking, going to every type of religious organization I could find in search of something that I could not name (God’s truth).
I said it had always bothered me because who was going to teach those people left behind? I said I had asked it many times but never got an answer that really left me feeling settled.
He smiled.
I was home.
Further Study
If you are interested in learning about the second coming from a biblical perspective (no pre-trib rapture), I highly recommend the book “The Real Second Coming” by CW Mayberry.
It is also available in several ebook formats. Enter code JM45U at checkout and the book is FREE.
hello, I don’t believe in the rapture. And I don’t know how I came to this conclusion. Other than my constant prayers to YHVH our Lord and Savior. I’m not educated in anything. I don’t have a High school diploma. But I have Jesus our Lord in my heart and soul.
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Amen. Yehovah gives His revelations to whom He chooses. Continue following Him.
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I have a Facebook page and YouTube channel that focuses on false doctrines such as this, and provide the true and accurate translations of the original Hebrew manuscripts. YaHoVeH, translated GOD of the covenant, Covenant GOD, from which ALL knowledge and wisdom comes from. Warns us in the Old testament in the book of Ezekiel 13:18-20. …In essence,” I am against those that teach my people to fly away to save their souls”. Be truly thankful to have Eyes to see and ears to hear!
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Why would the Saints come to Earth to get their Resurrected body when the spirit body they have works fine in Heaven . Why need our Resurrected body to live there, we would only need a body to live on Earth .
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The saints are never going to leave the earth. The Bible does not teach that the saints are going to heaven. When we meet him in the air it will be at the second coming – when he comes to rule and reign,,
The earth was created for mankind and will be returned to us when Satan is defeated.
The meek shall inherit the earth, we will rule and reign with him in the earth.
There will be no secret rapture.
My friend, you, like so many others, are the victim of western Christian theology which is so very wrong on so many points.
We will recieve a supernatural body at the second coming because it will be necessary to carry out the duties of governing this world. If that was not enough, why would you not want a body untouched by the degradaition of sin?
No more sickness, no need for sleep, no more growing old.
I highly recommend my book “The Real Second Coming” by CW Mayberry. It walks you through scripture to clearly explain this.
It is also available in several ebook formats. Enter code JM45U at checkout and the book is FREE.
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We thank our Heavenly Father God for the Truth that is being taught about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ by Stephanie Mayberry. I have taught our grown children since they were small that we as Christians may go through some very hard times in the Tribulation before Jesus comes again. The Bible plainly teaches only two comings of Jesus to this world. The first coming was in Bethlehem when Jesus was born as a Baby. The Second Coming will be when the last Trumpet sounds near the end or at the end of Tribulation. So get prepared and get ready and keep on serving the Lord until He comes after the the Seals are opened by Jesus Christ and after the last Trumpet !! God tells us in the Bible His Perfect Inerrant Word in I Corinthians 15:51-52, “Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. In a moment in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed.” These two verses fit perfectly like a hand in a glove with I Thessalonians 4:16-18 where God tells us, “For the Lord Himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the Trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.”
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We thank our Heavenly Father God for the Truth that is being taught about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ by Stephanie Mayberry. I have taught our grown children since they were small that we as Christians may go through some very hard times in the Tribulation before Jesus comes again. The Bible plainly teaches only two comings of Jesus to this world. The first coming was in Bethlehem when Jesus was born as a Baby. The Second Coming will be when the last Trumpet sounds near the end or at the end of Tribulation. So get prepared and get ready and keep on serving the Lord until He comes after the the Seals are opened by Jesus Christ and after the last Trumpet !! God tells us in the Bible His Perfect Inerrant Word in I Corinthians 15:51-52, “Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. In a moment in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed.” These two verses fit perfectly like a hand in a glove with I Thessalonians 4:16-18 where God tells us, “For the Lord Himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the Trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.” We Give God The Glory !!
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