The history of Dispensationalism:
The modern Christian idea of the "End Times" took hundreds of years to develop. It started as a
Catholic defense as part of the counter-reformation in the 1500s and slowly became the most popular belief in American churches today. Here is the history of the counterfeit:
1590: Francisco Ribera -- a Jesuit (The Start of Futurism)
During the Protestant Reformation, r
eformers identified the Catholic Pope as the Antichrist. To defend the church, a Catholic priest named Francisco Ribera created the Futurist view. He said the prophecies in the Book of Revelation were not about the Pope or the present day. Instead, they were about a short time of trouble far in the future, right before Jesus returns.
1812:
Manuel Lacunza (Crossing the Divide)
Manuel Lacunza was a Catholic (jesuit) priest from Chile who lived in exile in Italy. Under a fake Jewish name, he wrote a huge book arguing for the Futurist view. He also believed Jesus would return to Earth
before a 1,000-year golden age. His book was translated into English in 1827. This helped introduce his ideas to Protestants, who normally ignored Catholic writings.
1826: Samuel Maitland (Protestants Accept the Deception)
For a long time, Protestants believed the prophecies were happening throughout history, that’s historicism. But in the 1820s, a librarian named Samuel Maitland read the books by Ribera and Lacunza. He agreed with them and wrote
books to convince other Protestants that the Pope was not the Antichrist. This made the Futurist view acceptable to Protestants.
1830s:
John Nelson Darby (The Secret Rapture)
John Nelson Darby was an Irish preacher who took Futurism a step further. He created Dispensationalism, which is the idea that God treats people differently in different eras of history and has separate plans for Israel and the Church. Darby is famous for creating the idea of the "
Pre-Tribulation Rapture". This is the belief that Jesus will secretly return to take Christians to heaven before a terrible 7-year time of trouble begins on Earth. A comforting deception from the fires of hell.
1909:
Cyrus I. Scofield (Becoming Mainstream in America)
Darby's ideas might have stayed small if it weren't for C.I. Scofield. Scofield created the
Scofield Reference Bible, which printed Darby's ideas in the footnotes right next to the Bible verses. Since it was the first popular study Bible in America, millions of people read the footnotes as if they were part of the Bible itself. This made it the normal belief for many American Christians. More deceptions.
1970:
Hal Lindsey (Prophecy Meets the News)
Hal Lindsey wrote a book called
The Late Great Planet Earth. He took Scofield’s ideas and connected them to modern news events. He said things like the creation of Israel in 1948 and the Cold War were literal proof that the Rapture was going to happen very soon. It became the best-selling nonfiction book of the 1970s and started a movement of people trying to track prophecies in the news.
1995 - 2007: Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins (Pop Culture Fame)
These two authors wrote the
Left Behind series. They turned the ideas of Darby, Scofield, and Lindsey into a thrilling fictional story. They sold over 80 million copies. These books made this version of the "End Times" so famous that many Christians today think it is the only correct way to read the Book of Revelation.
Dispensationalism is not a further step in Protestantism, it is a method of prophetic interpretation which completely hides the Catholic church as the antichrist and has set up the destruction of millions of Christians who have been deceived by Satan while the antichrist hides in plain sight. Do you feel safe getting your doctrines from Jesuit lies?
[Mat 15:9 KJV] 9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching [for] doctrines the commandments of men.
