What If Everything You've Been Told About the Rapture Is Wrong | Part 2

What did the earliest Christians actually believe about the Rapture?

In Part 2 of this series, Ric Osuna traces the historical development of Rapture theology from the generations closest to the Apostles through the rise of modern Dispensational Premillennialism. Together, we'll examine the writings of Papias, Polycarp, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Tertullian, Hippolytus, Augustine, John Nelson Darby, and others to discover how Christians throughout history understood the Tribulation, the Millennium, and the return of Jesus Christ.

Did the earliest followers of Christ expect to escape tribulation?

Or did they believe the Church would endure hardship before being gathered to the Lord?

Most importantly, we'll continue applying the central principle of this series:

Observation before interpretation. Scripture before systems. Scripture interpreting Scripture.

In this episode you'll discover:

- What the earliest Church Fathers taught about the end times

- The origins of Historic Premillennialism

- Augustine's influence on Christian eschatology

- How Dispensational Premillennialism developed

- John Nelson Darby's role in modern Rapture theology

- Why church history still matters today

- The key differences between the historic view and the pretribulation view

Whether you hold a pretribulation, post-tribulation, amillennial, or postmillennial perspective, this episode will challenge assumptions and encourage deeper study of Scripture.

Because before we decide what a passage means, we must first understand what it says.