So, where did the rapture doctrine come from? It all started with a woman named Margaret MacDonald in 1830. She gave a “prophesy” concerning end times. Her “prophesy” was written down and later published in 1840 and again in 1861. From this “prophesy” a man named John Nelson Darby began to promote the concept of the rapture “theory” and it began to become popular. C. I. Scofield, a well-known theologian of the late 1800s and early 1900s, liked the rapture theory and began to include it in his annotated Bibles, and from there, it became widely popular in most American churches. So, this is a new and modern doctrine that was never taught or thought up before 1830. Yet this theory is taught and believed to be true by almost every denomination and paid preacher we have today. www.christianmyths.org