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Pretrib Rapture Dishonesty

by Dave MacPherson (emphasis added)

WHEN I BEGAN MY research in 1970 into the exact beginnings

of the pretribulation rapture belief still held by many evangelicals, I assumed that the rapture debate involved only godly scholars with honest differences. The paper you are now reading reveals why I gave up that assumption many years ago. With this introduction-ofsorts in mind, lets take a long look at the pervasive dishonesty throughout the history of the 179-year-old pretrib rapture theory: German scholar Max Weremchuks work John Nelson Darby (1992) included what Benjamin Newton revealed about John Darby in the mid-1820's during his pre-Brethren days as an Anglican clergyman: J. N. Darby was a very subtle man. He had been a lawyer, or at least educated for the law. Once he wanted his Archbishop to pursue a certain course, when he (J.N.D.) was a curate in his diocese. He wrote a letter, therefore, saying he had been educated for the law, knew what the legal course would properly be; and then having written that clearly, he mystified the remainder of the letter both in word and in handwriting, and ended up by saying: You see, my Lord, such being the legal aspect of the case it would unquestionably be the best course for you to pursue, etc. And the Archbishop couldnt make out the legal part, but rested on Darbys word and did as he advised. Darby afterwards laughed over it, and indeed he showed a copy of the letter to Tregelles. This is not mentioned in the Archbishops biography, but in it is the fact that he spoke of Darby as the most subtle man in my diocese. This reminds me of an 1834 letter by Darby which spoke of the Lords coming. Darby added, concerning this coming, that the thoughts are new and that during any teaching of it it would not be well to have it so clear. Darbys deviousness here was his usage of a centuries-old termLords comingt o cover up his desire t o
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sneak t he new pret rib idea int o exist ing post t rib groups in very low-prof ile ways! In the spring of 1830 a young Scottish lassie, Margaret Macdonald, came up with the novel notion of a catching up [rapture] of Spirit-filled church members before Antichrists trial [tribulation] of non-Spirit-filled church membersthe first instance Ive found of clear pretrib teaching (which was part of a partial rapture scheme). In Sep. 1830 The Morning Watch (a journal produced by London preacher Edward Irving and his Irvingite followers, some of whom had visited Margaret a few weeks earlier) began repeating her original thoughts and even her wording but gave her no creditt he f irst plagiarism Ive f ound in pret rib hist ory. Darby was st ill def ending post t rib in Dec. 1830. Pretrib promoters have long known the significance of her main point: a rapture of church members BEFORE the revealing of Ant ichrist . Which is why John Walvoord quoted nothing in her revelation, why Thomas Ice habitually skips over her main point but quotes lines BEFORE and AFTER it, and why Hal Lindsey muddies up her main point so he can (falsely) assert that she was NOT a pretribber! (Google X-Raying Margaret for info about her.) NOTE: The development of the [pretrib rapture in the] 1800's is thoroughly documented in my book The Rapture Plot. Youll learn that Darby wasnt original on any chief aspect of dispensationalism (but plagiarized the Irvingites); that pretrib was initially based on only OT and NT symbols and not clear Scripture; that the symbols included the Jewish feasts, the two witnesses, and the man child symbols adopted by Darby during most of his career; that Darbys later reminiscences exaggerated his earliest pretrib development, and that todays defenders such as Thomas Ice have further overstated what Darby overstated; that Irvingism didnt need later reminiscences to clarify its own early pretrib development; that ancient hymns and even the writings of the Reformers were subtly revised to make it appear they had taught pretrib; and that after Darbys death a clever revisionist quietly made many changes in early Irvingite and Brethren documents in order to steal credit for pretrib away from the Irvingites (and their female inspiration!) and give it dishonest ly to Darby! (Before continuing, Google the Powered by
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Christ Ministries site and read Americas Pretrib Rapture Traffickers a sample of the current exciting internetism!) Charles Trumbulls book The Life Story of C. I. Scofield told only the dispensationally-correct side of his life. Two recent books, Joseph Canfields The Incredible Scofield and His Book (1988) and David Lutzweilers DispenSinsationalism: C. I. Scofields Life and Errors (2006), reveal the other side including his being jailed as a forger, dishonestly giving himself a non-conferred D.D. etc. etc.! Brethren scholar Harold Rowdons The Origins of the Brethren quoted Darby associate Lord Congleton who was disgusted with...the falseness of Darbys accounts of things. Rowdon also quoted historian William Neatby who said that others felt that the time-honoured method of single combat was as good as anything to elicit the truth from Darby. (In other words, knock it out of him!) Tim LaHayes The Beginning of the End (1972) plagiarized Hal Lindseys The Late Great Planet Earth (1970). Charles Ryries The Living End (1976) plagiarized Lindseys The Late Great Planet Earth (1970) and Theres A New World Coming (1973). After John Walvoords The Blessed Hope and the Tribulation (1976) brutally twisted Robert Gundrys The Church and the Tribulation (1973), Gundry composed and circulated a 35-page open letter to Walvoord which repeatedly charged the Dallas Seminary president with misrepresentation, misrepresentations (and variations)! The Fundamentalist Phenomenon (1981) by Jerry Falwell, Ed Dobson, and Ed Hindson heavily plagiarized George Dollars 1973 book A History of Fundamentalism in America. After a prof at Southeastern College of the Assemblies of God in Florida told me that the No. 2 man at the AG world headquarters in MissouriJoseph Flowerhad the label of posttrib, my wife and I had two hour-long chats with him. He verified what I had been told. But we were dumbstruck when he told us that although AG ministers are required to promote pretrib, privately they can believe any other rapture view! Flower said that his father, an AG co-founder, was also post t rib. We also learned while in Springfield that when the AGs
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were organized in 1914, the initial group was divided between posttribs and pretribsbut that the pretribs shouted louder which resulted in that denomination officially adopting pretrib! (For details on this and other pretrib double-mindedness, Google Pretrib Hypocrisy.) Since 1989 Thomas Ice has referred to the Mac-theory (his reference to my research), giving the impression theres no solid evidence that Macdonald was the real pretrib originator. But Ice carefully conceals the fact that no eminent church hist orian of t he 1800'swhet her Plymout h Bret hren or Irvingit ecredit ed Darby wit h pret rib. Inst ead, t hey unif ormly credit ed leading Irvingit e sources, all of which upheld t he Scot t ish lassies cont ribut ion! Moreover, Im hardly the only modern scholar seeing significance in Irvingisms territory. Others in recent years who have noted it, but who havent mined it as deeply as I have, include Fuller, Ladd, Bass, Rowdon, Sandeen, and Gundry. Greg Bahnsen and Kenneth Gentry produced evidence in 1989 that Lindseys book The Road to Holocaust (1989) plagiarized Dominion Theology (1988) by H. Wayne House and Thomas Ice. David Jeremiahs and C. C. Carlsons Escape the Coming Night (1990) massively plagiarized Lindseys 1973 book Theres A New World Coming. (For more info, type in Thieves Marketing on MSN or Google.) Paul Lee Tans A Pictorial Guide to Bible Prophecy (1991) plagiarized large amounts of Lindseys The Late Great Planet Earth (1970). Militant Darby defender R. A. Huebner claimed in 1991 to have found new evidence that Darby was pretrib as early as 1827three years before Macdonald. Halfway through his book Huebner suddenly admitted that his evidence could refer to something completely un-rapturesque. Even though Thomas Ice admitted to me t hat he knew t hat Huebner had blown his so-called evidence, prevaricator Ice continues to tell the world that Huebner has positive evidence that Darby was pretrib in 1827! Ice also conceals the fact that Darby, in his own 1827 paper, was looking for only the restitution of all things and the times of refreshing (Acts 3:19,21) which Scofield doesnt see fulfilled until AFTER a future tribulation!
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Tim LaHayes No Fear of the Storm (1992) plagiarized Walvoords The Blessed Hope and the Tribulation (1976). This was when the Los Angeles Times revealed that The Magog Factor (1992) by Hal Lindsey and Chuck Missler was a monstrous plagiarism of Prof. Edwin Yamauchis scholarly 1982 work Foes from the Northern Frontier. Four months after this exposure, Lindsey and Missler stated they had stopped publishing and promoting their book. But in 1996 Dr. Yamauchi learned that the dishonest duo had issued a 1995 book called The Magog Invasion which st ill had a subst ant ial amount of t he same plagiarism! (If Lindsey and Missler ever need hernia operations, I predict that the doctors will tell them not to lift anything for a long time!) In 1996 it was revealed that Lindseys Planet Earth2000 A.D. (1994) had an embarrassing amount of plagiarism of a Texe Marrs book titled Mystery Mark of the New Age (1988). My book The Rapture Plot reveals the dishonesty in Darbys reprinted works. Its often hard to tell who wrote the footnotes and when. Its easy to believe that the notes, and also unsigned phrases inside brackets within the text, were a devious attempt by someone (Darby? his editor?) to portray a Darby far more developed in pretrib thinking than he actually had been at the time. I found that some of the additives had been taken from Darbys much later works, when he was more developed, and placed next to or inside his earliest works! One footnote by Darbys editor, attached to Darbys 1830 paper, actually stated that it was not worth while either suppressing or changing anything in this work! If his editor wasnt open to such dishonesty, how can we explain such a statement? Post-1995Thomas Ices article Inventor of False Pre-Trib Rapture History states that my book The Rapture Plot is only one of the latest in a series of revisions of his original discourse.... And David Reagan in his article The Origin of the Concept of a PreTribulation Rapture repeats Ices falsehood by claiming that I have republished my first book over the years under several different titles. Although my book repeats a bit of the Macdonald origin of pretrib (for new readers), all of my books are packed with new material not found in my other works. For some clarification, The Incredible
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Cover-Up has photos of pertinent places in Ireland, Scotland, and England not found in my later books plus several chapters dealing with theological arguments; The Great Rapture Hoax quotes scholars throughout the Church Age, covers Scofields hidden side, a section on Powerscourt, the 1980 election, the Jupiter Effect, Gundrys change, and more theological arguments; The Rapture Plot reveals for the first time the Great Evangelical Revisionism/Robbery and includes appendices on miscopying, plagiarism, etc.; and The Three Rs shows hypocritical evangelicals employing occultic beliefs they say they have long opposed! So Thomas Ice etc. are twisting truth when they claim I am only a revisionist. Do they really think that my publishers DONT know what Ive previously written? Re arguments, Google Pretrib RaptureHidden Facts and also obtain The End Times Passover and Why Christians Will Suffer Great Tribulation (AuthorHouse, 2006) by media personality Joe Ortiz. For years Harvest House Publishers has owned and been republishing Lindseys book Theres A New World Coming. During the same time Lindsey has been peddling his reportedly new book Apocalypse Code (1997), much of which is word-for-word the same as the Harvest House bookand theres no notice of simultaneous publishing in either book! Talk about pretrib greed! This is the year I discovered that more than 50 pages of Dallas Seminary professor Merrill Ungers book Beyond the Crystal Ball (Moody Press, 1973) constituted a colossal plagiarism of Lindseys The Late Great Planet Earth (1970). After Lindseys book came out, Unger had complained that Lindseys book had plagiarized his classroom lecture notes. It was evident that Unger felt that he too should cash in on his own lectures! (The detailed account of this Dallas Seminary dishonest y is revealed in my 1998 book The Three Rs.) Tim LaHayes Understanding the Last Days (1998) plagiarized Lindseys Theres A New World Coming (1973). More than 200 pages (out of 396 pages) in Lindseys 1999 book Vanished Into Thin Air are virtually carbon copies of pages in his
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1983 book The Rapturewith no updated or revised notice included! Lindsey has done the same nervy thing with several of his books, something that has allowed him to live in million-dollar-plus homes and drive cars like Ferraris! (See my Google articles Deceiving and Being Deceived and Thieves Marketing for further evidence of this notably pretrib vice.) A Jack Van Impe article The Moment After (2000) plagiarized Grant Jeffreys book Final Warning (1995). Since 2001 my web article Walvoords Posttrib VarietiesPlus has been exposing his devious muddying up of posttrib waters. In some of his books he invented four distinct and contradictory posttrib divisions, claiming that they are either classic or semiclassic or futurist or dispensationaldistinctions that disappear when analyzed! His futurist group holds to a literal future tribulation and a literal millennium but doesnt embrace any day imminency. But his dispensational group has the same nonimminency! Moreover, tribulational futurism is found in every group except the first one, and he somehow admitted that a literal millennium is in all four groups! On the other hand, its the pretribs who consistently disagree with each other over their chief points and subpointsbut somehow end up agreeing that there will be a pretrib rapture! (See my chapter A House Divided in my book The Incredible Cover-Up.) Since my Deceiving and Being Deceived web item which exposed the claims for Pseudo-Ephraem and Morgan Edwards as teachers of pretrib, there has been a piranha-like frenzy on the part of pretrib bodyguards and their duped groupies to discover almost anything before 1830 walking upright on two legs that seemed to have at least a remote hint of pretrib! (An exemplary poster boy for such pretrib practice is Grant Jeffrey. To get your moneys worth, Google Wily Jeffrey.) FINALLY: Dont take my word for any of the above. Read my 300page book The Rapture Plot which has a jillion more documented details on the long-hidden but now-revealed history of the dishonest , 179-year-old, fringe-British-invented, Americanmerchandised-until-the-real-bad-stuff-happens pretribulation rapture fad. If this book of mine doesnt move you, I will personally
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refund what you paid for it.

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