tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8208633323271214428.post6861193666840334567..comments2023-12-09T12:43:40.808-08:00Comments on Worthy of Note: Carl Olson: Will Catholics Be 'Left Behind'?Alex Binzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00232551422932887547noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8208633323271214428.post-62642991479998677592012-10-15T15:08:34.487-07:002012-10-15T15:08:34.487-07:00[Hi Alex. Carl Olson is right on. Here's relat...[Hi Alex. Carl Olson is right on. Here's related material that I discovered on the net. Fred]<br /><br /> Catholics Did NOT Invent the Rapture !<br /><br /> Many assert that the "rapture" promoted by evangelicals was first taught, at least seminally, by a Jesuit Catholic priest named Francisco Ribera in his 16th century commentary on the book of Revelation.<br /> To see what is claimed, Google "Francisco Ribera taught a rapture 45 days before the end of Antichrist's future reign."<br /> After seeing this claim repeated endlessly on the internet without even one sentence from Ribera offered as proof, one widely known church historian decided to go over every page in Ribera's 640-page work published in Latin in 1593.<br /> After laboriously searching for the Latin equivalent of "45 days" ("quadraginta quinque dies"), "rapture" ("raptu," "raptio," "rapiemur," etc.) and other related expressions, the same scholar revealed that he found absolutely nothing in Ribera's commentary to support the oft-repeated claim that Ribera taught a prior (45-day) rapture! (Since the same scholar plans to publish his complete findings, I am not at liberty to disclose his name.)<br /> Are you curious about the real beginnings of this evangelical belief (a.k.a. the "pre-tribulation rapture") merchandised by Darby, Scofield, Lindsey, Falwell, LaHaye, Ice, Van Impe, Hagee and many others?<br /> Google "The Unoriginal John Darby," "Pretrib Rapture Diehards," "X-Raying Margaret," "Edward Irving is Unnerving," "Walvoord Melts Ice," "Thomas Ice (Bloopers)," "Wily Jeffrey," "Deceiving and Being Deceived" by D.M., "The Real Manuel Lacunza," "Roots of Warlike Christian Zionism," "Pretrib Rapture Politics," "Pretrib Hypocrisy," "Famous Rapture Watchers," and "Pretrib Rapture Dishonesty" - most of these by the author of the 300-page nonfiction book "The Rapture Plot," the highly endorsed and most accurate documentation on the long hidden historical facts of the 182-year-old pre-tribulation rapture theory imported from Britain during the late 19th century.<br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com