Subject: Pretribulation or slightly after ? |
Bible Note: "This rumor that the pre-trib view started in the 19th century is not accurate. I have numerous books in my library that reference the doctrine of a generation of saints that are changed in a moment and rise and meet the Lord and then afterwards an ongoing time of judgement upon those that remain that date back to the middle ages. I have a book that is one of the best and most scholarly expositions on Revelation by a man named James A. Siess titled "The Apocalypse" that was written in the 18th century (late 1700s) and he even used the word rapture. Siess cites numerous rescources in his book of ancient writers that held similar views based on the same verses we use today to explain the rapture." Joseph Augustus Seiss (1823-1904) is the author of _The Apocalypse: Exposition of the Book of Revelation_. The book was first published in 1865. Look at the years of his life. This is most definitely a 19th-century, post-Darby work. --Joe! |