Okay, I was raised fundamentalist Baptist and was 7 when the book “The Late Great Planet Earth” came out and movies like “Thief in the Night”… it terrorized me as a kid. Later on when I found out that much, if not all, of that was invented by John Nelson Darby in the 19th century as “dispensational premillenialism”. I don’t know enough to know whether that is totally correct but it’s been the gist I’ve picked up in my research on it.
I guess what I’m wondering is how did his ideas become mainstream and are there any trustworthy historical links to his teachings?
I can’t find any yet. This seems like the best place to find anyone that has any information on that.
I have friends that talk about this stuff and would like something better than… “oh man… that’s horses**t! That was a teaching that started in the 19th century!” at my disposal. LOL
Welcome Truxton.
Darby did originate the idea of “dispensational premillenialism” but it became popular in the USA because it was absorbed into Cyrus Scofield’s Scofield Reference Bible published just after WW1. It contained the Protestant King James Version of the Bible and for the first time included interlinear notes in the text. The Scofield Reference Bible became enormously popular with the fundamentalist movement in the USA and that’s where Hal Lindsey and Tim LaHaye got all their ideas.
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