Incredible Cover Up

by Dave MacPherson

Book Overview

Exposing the Origins of Rapture Theories. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0931608066
• ISBN13: 9780931608063
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Omega Publications (OR)
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

Split-Rapture Recent Origins Exposed

Have you seen bumper stickers saying, "In case of Rapture, this car will be unmanned?" Or maybe the amazingly popular sci fi book series Left Behind, by Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye? Or maybe the wave of movies the last few years dealing with the removal of Christians from the world before the Antichrist comes? These all reflect or propound a novel and comparatively recent teaching that has swept a segment of evangelical Christianity in the latter 20th century. Premillennialism These are expressions of one version of an End-Time teaching called Premillenialism. The basic focus of millennialism is that at the end of time, Jesus will come and establish a literal kingdom on the earth to rule literally as an earthly king for 1000 years. Premillennialism is a specialized version of a general belief among Christians that in the end of time, Jesus will return, the resurrection will occur and the final judgement of the world will occur. Split Rapture This book deals with the historical origin of an even more specialized conception of Premillennialism is called the Split Rapture. This fascinating modern apocalyptic theory of the Split Rapture teaching specifies that Christians will be removed from the world for a period, during which the Antichrist will literally establish his rule over the entire earth. There are various fiction scenarios about how this might happen. The idea is that the Christians alone (or some say only a faithful group of them) will be taken out of the world during the Great Tribulation of the Antichrist's reign of terror. The theory claims that these "early risers" will be brought back with Jesus when he returns to defeat the Antichrist. Then the dead Christians will be resurrected and enjoy the 1000-year reign of Jesus before the final judgement. Thus the "rapture" (change) of the Christian believers into their holy resurrection bodies will be split into two stages, according to this theory. The split rapture idea further teaches that the removal of the living Christians will be secret. Thus the unbelievers will be confused and surprised when all these people suddenly disappear. Scenarios of the event commonly depict cars or planes crashing and trains running amok because Christian pilots, drivers and traffic controllers have been suddenly taken! Because they church is "raptured" (removed) before the Great Tribulation, this Split Rapture scenario is also referred to as a "Pre-tribulation" event. Historical Origin Author MacPherson tracks down and fully documents the recent historical origins of the Pre-tribulation "Rapture" belief to the ecstatic prophetic utterance of a 15-year-old Mary McDonald in Glasgow in 1830. He documents the specific place, time and situation that this prophecy first was uttered. He traces this idea from Mary's home prayer cell though the stages of its spread through certain communities of "evangelical" Christianity. MacPherson definitively shows that no one every proposed this split-rap

the rapture is a lie

This book proves what i have been saying for God knows how long, The Rapture is a bunch of hot air. It is a bunch of hot air blown around by dispensatiolist and Christian Zionist who need to read their bibles and stop listening to little kid fairy tales! Good book, recommend it to anybody

Incredible Cover Up

This is an excellent book on the fascinating origin of the pre-tribulational rapture view of eschatology, also called dispensationalism. The author has done some fine historical research and his skill as an investigative reporter shows. If Baptists knew that their pet eschatological doctrine originated with a 15-year-old charismatic, tongues-speaking, woman "prophet" in 1830, they would probably drop their dispensational views like a hotcake! The book is not very flattering of John Nelson Darby, who is often attributed with originating dispensationalism. One explanation for Darby's glaring omission of mentioning Margaret MacDonald's rapture "prophecy" is that he probably did not want to be associated with the charismaticism of the day. Although the author holds to a premillennial post-trib rapture (chiliast) view, the book is still a valuable resource for reformed Christians holding either an amillennial or postmillennial view. Both in America in the early 1900s and in Scotland in 1830, the primary and possibly sole justification for the revival of the charismatic gifts of tongues and prophecy was the eminent return of Christ. And how did they know His return was eminent? Because they prophesied it! The author shows the MacDonald clan of two older brothers and three sisters to have a reputation of leading godly and humble lives, in spite of their charismatic errors. One explanation for this inconsistency is that several years prior to the 1830 charismatic experience, the twin elder brothers, acting as heads of the household (their parents had died), began leading the family in twice-daily family worship. As members of the Church of Scotland (Presbyterian), they were probably familiar with the Directory of Family Worship, written and adopted by the Church of Scotland in 1647, which threatens excommunication for failure to keep daily family worship. However, the Directory also discourages unsanctioned private prayer meetings between "divers families." In spite of apparent warnings from their pastor, the MacDonalds continued to hold such meetings, from which sprang up the charismatic errors. Interestingly, family worship is practically nonexistent among charismatics and other dispensationalists today because it doesn't make much sense under an eminent return paradigm; children's church, youth group, and public schools are more pragmatic under modern self-absorbed Christianity. Family worship is far more strongly motivated under covenantal or reformed theology, which understands the principles of Ps 78:1-8.The covenantalist reading this magnificent little book will quickly realize the amazing fact that all the errors, false prophecies, and end times hype of dispensationalism that is so rampant in American Christianity today, can all be traced back to a seemingly small error of an otherwise godly family living 170 years ago on the other side of the Atlantic!Dan Brown, ruling elder, Redeemer Pres

This is a must read!

The Anti-"Left Behind." Learning the history of where the pre-trib idea really came from was a BIG help to me. If you're at all open to considering that this idea is not at all Scriptural, I highly recommend this book about the truth of the historical birth of the pre-trib rapture theory.

reads like an exciting detective story!

With everyone wondering what's ahead and if Y2K will be Y2OK, everyone should learn about the greatest and most disgusting cover-up in religion during the past two centuries. This book has caused leaders like Falwell and Lindsey to have permanent sunburns. MacPherson's adventures in person in Scotland and England to find the hidden roots of evangelicalism's biggest money-raising doctrine of the End makes for thrilling reading - and it's reasonably priced also!