If a pretribulation rapture is true, why wasn't it a core belief and teaching of first century believers, rather than its first mention made by John Nelson Darby, and susequently presented in the Scofield Reference Bible in the early 1900's?
Interestingly, there was contention regarding the timing of when being "caught up in the clouds" (1 Thes 4:17) would occur even prior to the completion of...



