The Origins of the Rapture

Register for my Gospel of Thomas class here!: Join our Patreon community!: One-time donations here!: Check out my favorite religious studies books by following this affiliate link to my Amazon page: The Rapture: The belief that Jesus will remove all true Christians from the Earth prior to the end of the world and establishment of his kingdom. The belief is mostly found among American Evangelicals and is part of the larger theological framework called Dispensational Premillennialism. But where did this belief come from? Bibliography: Daniel Hummel, The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism, 2023 Paul Richard Wilkinson, For Zion’s Sake: Christian Zionism and the Role of John Nelson Darby, 2008 Candida Moss and Joel Baden, “1 Thessalonians in Rabbinic Perspective,“ Ne