Rapture Fever

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Key Dates in Dispensationalism’s History
1830 ‘The initial development of the pre-tribulation doctrine,
either by the trance-induced 20-year-old Margaret Mac- ,
donald or by John Nelson Darby.
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1855 John Cumming announces that Russia will invade Israel: ;
The End: 0~ The Proximate Signs of the Close of This Dispen- ~,
sation, Lecture ‘7.
1878 Publication of the immensely popular book by William E.
Blackstone (W. E.B.), Jesus Is Coming.
1909 C. 1. Scofield’s Scofield Reference Bible is published by Oxford
University Press. ;
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191’7 Balfour Declaration promises British support for the - ~ ~
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creation of a State of Israel in Palestine.
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1925 The Scopes’ “ Monkey Trial” results in a public disgrace
for William Jennings Bryan and the voluntary withdrawal
of American fundamentalism from public discourse.
1926 Founding of Dallas Theological Seminary.
1948 The creation of the modern State of Israel, May 14: the
“generation of the fig tree” supposedly begins.
1970 Hal Lindsey’s Late Great Planet Earth creates a huge new
market in “ticking clock” prophecy books: an unstated but
obvious rejection of traditional dispensationalism’s doctrine
of the any-moment Rapture, which insists that the
70th week of Daniel begins only after the Rapture.
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