The Didache, last chapter (early 2nd century): There "shall appear the deceiver of the world as a Son of God, and shall do signs and wonders and the earth shall be given over into his hands and he shall commit iniquities which have never been since the world began. Then shall the creation of mankind come to the fiery trial and many shall be offended and be lost, but they who endure in their faith shall be saved by the curse itself. And then shall appear the signs of the truth. First, the sign spread out in Heaven, then the sign of the trumpet, and thirdly the resurrection of the dead: but not all the dead, but as it was said, The Lord shall come, then shall all the world see the Lord coming on the clouds of Heaven."
The Epistle of Barnabus (early 2nd cent)
The Shepard of Hermas (150 AD)
Justin Martyr (150 AD): "He shall come from Heaven with glory, when the man of apostasy, who speaks strange things against the Most High, shall venture to do unlawful deeds on earth against us Christians, who, having learned the true worship of God from the law, and the word which went forth from Jerusalem by means of the apostles of Jesus, have fled for safety to the God of Jacob."
Irenaeus (115-202 AD)
Tertullian (160-240 AD)
Lactantius (late 3rd cent, early 4th)
Hippolytus (early 3rd cent)
I'll let you investigate the others I have mentioned, but they all speak the same, the Christians (that is the Church, the Body of Christ) will suffer at the hands of Antichrist.
The (secret) pre-tribulation advent and rapture was unknown in the Church until the year 1830.
In 1830 Edward Irving was defrocked from the Church of England because his superiors believed that his doctrinal beliefs and preaching on the sinfulness of Christ's nature, was heretical. Irving set up his own church, which he called “The Catholic Apostolic Church,” but which others called “The Irvingites.” In his congregation there was a Scottish girl called Margaret Macdonald; and in one of his services she went into a trance and gave some prophecies. In this trance she said that she saw the people of God going up in the air to meet the Lord. From this “revelation,” Irving preached that the Church would be raptured and miss the great tribulation. Irving went over to the conferences in Ireland at Powerscourt, near Dublin, and preached this doctrine. Ironside, who writes in support of the doctrine of the pretribulation secret rapture of the Church, states that this “blessed doctrine” came to light in the Powerscourt conferences in Ireland in the 1830's. Mr Robert Baxter, a principal leader in this movement, published the doctrine of a secret coming of Christ everywhere he went, and it was quickly received. This view was also adopted by J. N. Darby, and it has been earnestly maintained by many who have studied his writings. Scofield wrote this doctrine into his notes in His Scofield Bible, and Larkin drew some charts; and the doctrine infiltrated into the brethren movement. However, Tregelles, Newton, George Muller, and many others, rejected the revelation and doctrine as unscriptural. They realised that Margaret Macdonald's “revelation,” had brought into the Church a false doctrine, which was previously unknown in Church history, and was a direct contradiction of the Scriptures.
The doctrine, which you believe and are teaching is an evil seed that the Devil put into the Church, the Lord Jesus said it was false prophets who would teach a secret pre-tribulation advent and rapture. Matt 24v23-27.
In 1Tim 1v19,20, we read that Paul delivered Hymenaeus and Alexander to Satan that they might learn not to blaspheme. We learn from 2Tim 2v16-18, that Paul did this because they had overthrown the faith of some Christians, by saying that the resurrection and the second coming of Christ had already taken place. Paul said their wrong doctrine ate like a canker and gangrene, and they died for their dangerous heresy, executed by the operation of God's judgement gifts through Paul. The deaths of Hymenaeus, Philetus, and Alexander, show how serious and dangerous it is to misinterpret prophecy.
You are blatantly teaching lies about the 2nd Coming of Christ, do you think that the Lord Jesus will treat you any differently (than he treated Hymenaeus, Philetus, and Alexander) when your false teaching of the 2nd Coming of Christ overthrows the faith of Christians?
The Epistle of Barnabus (early 2nd cent)
The Shepard of Hermas (150 AD)
Justin Martyr (150 AD): "He shall come from Heaven with glory, when the man of apostasy, who speaks strange things against the Most High, shall venture to do unlawful deeds on earth against us Christians, who, having learned the true worship of God from the law, and the word which went forth from Jerusalem by means of the apostles of Jesus, have fled for safety to the God of Jacob."
Irenaeus (115-202 AD)
Tertullian (160-240 AD)
Lactantius (late 3rd cent, early 4th)
Hippolytus (early 3rd cent)
I'll let you investigate the others I have mentioned, but they all speak the same, the Christians (that is the Church, the Body of Christ) will suffer at the hands of Antichrist.
The (secret) pre-tribulation advent and rapture was unknown in the Church until the year 1830.
In 1830 Edward Irving was defrocked from the Church of England because his superiors believed that his doctrinal beliefs and preaching on the sinfulness of Christ's nature, was heretical. Irving set up his own church, which he called “The Catholic Apostolic Church,” but which others called “The Irvingites.” In his congregation there was a Scottish girl called Margaret Macdonald; and in one of his services she went into a trance and gave some prophecies. In this trance she said that she saw the people of God going up in the air to meet the Lord. From this “revelation,” Irving preached that the Church would be raptured and miss the great tribulation. Irving went over to the conferences in Ireland at Powerscourt, near Dublin, and preached this doctrine. Ironside, who writes in support of the doctrine of the pretribulation secret rapture of the Church, states that this “blessed doctrine” came to light in the Powerscourt conferences in Ireland in the 1830's. Mr Robert Baxter, a principal leader in this movement, published the doctrine of a secret coming of Christ everywhere he went, and it was quickly received. This view was also adopted by J. N. Darby, and it has been earnestly maintained by many who have studied his writings. Scofield wrote this doctrine into his notes in His Scofield Bible, and Larkin drew some charts; and the doctrine infiltrated into the brethren movement. However, Tregelles, Newton, George Muller, and many others, rejected the revelation and doctrine as unscriptural. They realised that Margaret Macdonald's “revelation,” had brought into the Church a false doctrine, which was previously unknown in Church history, and was a direct contradiction of the Scriptures.
The doctrine, which you believe and are teaching is an evil seed that the Devil put into the Church, the Lord Jesus said it was false prophets who would teach a secret pre-tribulation advent and rapture. Matt 24v23-27.
In 1Tim 1v19,20, we read that Paul delivered Hymenaeus and Alexander to Satan that they might learn not to blaspheme. We learn from 2Tim 2v16-18, that Paul did this because they had overthrown the faith of some Christians, by saying that the resurrection and the second coming of Christ had already taken place. Paul said their wrong doctrine ate like a canker and gangrene, and they died for their dangerous heresy, executed by the operation of God's judgement gifts through Paul. The deaths of Hymenaeus, Philetus, and Alexander, show how serious and dangerous it is to misinterpret prophecy.
You are blatantly teaching lies about the 2nd Coming of Christ, do you think that the Lord Jesus will treat you any differently (than he treated Hymenaeus, Philetus, and Alexander) when your false teaching of the 2nd Coming of Christ overthrows the faith of Christians?
And 2nd Thessalonians 2 is clear....before the body presence and OUR GATHERING the BEAST must be on the scene claiming to be God and worshiped as God....