Peter Boothroyd- Christians Have Bought Tribulation Lie
April 10, 2024
A 1839 painting by the Scot David Roberts depicting destruction of Jerusalem.
Christians have been taught to embrace the Great Tribulation because, before that happens, they will all be removed or raptured from the planet. But, it's all a hoax because, the predicted great tribulation already took place in the horrific years of the Roman siege that ended with the complete destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. The rapture was made up to pacify Christians.
The Rapture and Other End Time Hoaxes
by Peter Boothroyd
(henrymakow.com)
Christians across North America believe that one day they will be raptured and will be spared the "Tribulation" and "Antichrist."
They might be surprised to learn that the false doctrines of the rapture and dispensationalism were invented in 1830 by John Darby.
In fact, you won't find the word "rapture" in the Bible. It's a hoax. But this didn't stop Cyrus Ingerson Scofield from stealing Darby's deceptive doctrines and incorporating them in his Scofield Reference Bible which was first published in 1909 and revised in 1917. Labeled a charlatan and heretic by Christian author Stephen Sizeman, shyster Scofield even conferred a doctorate on himself in 1892. You can read more about this scoundrel here.
In spite of Scofield's sordid background, the erroneous rapture doctrine was popularized by Hal Lindsay in his book The Late Great Planet Earth in 1970 and sensationalized by Tim LaHaye with his apocalyptic Left Behind series of books beginning in 1995.
The heretical Scofield Reference Bible was even picked up by the Dallas Theological Seminary as a textbook for its students. Many other Bible colleges in the United States also teach students about the rapture and dispensationalism as if they are facts.
(left, C.I. Scofield)
Not only is there no rapture. The "Antichrist" is a make-believe character promoted by the Scofield futurists. A quick check in Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible reveals that the Bible warns that not just one but many antichrists will emerge over the ages.
The spirit of antichrist is already in the world, the Bible says. Anyone that denies God and His Son is antichrist. And antichrist systems are alive and well today. However, don't expect a guy who calls himself the real Antichrist to pop up any time soon.
But the lies don't stop there. Many evangelical Christians like to talk about the "Great Tribulation" which they say is a 3½ year-period that is still to come marked by the appearance of the Antichrist. Well, guess what? Those 3½ years of great tribulation have already come and gone and culminated in the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. The famous historian Flavio Josephus observed and recorded in great detail the terrifying Roman siege of Jerusalem which lasted from the spring of 67 AD until the fall of 70 AD (3½ years).
In his book The Destruction of Jerusalem, written in 1805, George Peter Holford explains that the Olivet Discourse of Jesus, recorded in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, is a prediction of the events that would soon come to pass and lead to the destruction of Jerusalem and its magnificent temple.
But the heretical Scofield futurists would have you believe that Jesus was speaking of events 2,000 years or more in the future. Holford's book contains much information from Josephus. Why does the Olivet Discourse not appear in the Gospel of John, you might ask? Because John's detailed account of the soon-to-arrive destruction of Jerusalem is contained in the Book of Revelation.
Well, what about 666, the "number of the beast"? Surely, the beast of Revelation 13 is still to come. No, many theologians think not. That's another instance of how many of us have been hoodwinked to believe the lies of the dispensational futurists.
The last verse of Revelation 13 in the King James Version doesn't say the number of the beast is 666. It says "let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast for it is the number of a man, and his number is Six [sic] hundred threescore and six" (or six hundred and sixty-six). John was speaking in code to the seven churches in Asia Minor. He knew that, if his readers were smart enough to use Hebrew gematria, the number six hundred and sixty six would give them the name Nero Caesar.
It was Nero, the wicked beast, who punished John by banishing him to the Isle of Patmos in the Aegean Sea where he wrote Revelation. Before that, Nero had tried to kill John by boiling him in oil but he didn't succeed. And the siege of Jerusalem began in 67 AD when Nero was Emperor of ancient Rome until he committed suicide in AD 68.
Don't let the futurists fool you. The rapture, the "Great Tribulation" and the coming "Antichrist" are all hoaxes perpetrated by the evangelicals who have been duped by the heretical Scofield Reference Bible.
The dispensational futurists would have you believe that John wrote the Book of Revelation to forecast events that would take place more than 2,000 years after it was written. The truth of the matter is most of the events in the Book of Revelation had already taken place by the time Jerusalem and its magnificent temple had been utterly destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD. In the opening chapter of the Book of Revelation, John indicates that he is writing about events that must "soon take place", not 2,000 years later.
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Peter Boothroyd is the author of the spy thriller novel The Iran Imperative under his alias Laurence Atelier.
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First Comment from A Catholic Reader and Amateur Student of Prophecy
The article is wrong regarding the Tribulation , and so is the first commenter, Rae. Author is correct that much of The Book of Revelation was already fulfilled in 70 AD with the sacking of Jersalem, but this history doesn't include the future coming of the Antichrist. Article is also correct in claiming the rapture is a scam, but incorrect to claim that there is no Tribulation and Antichrist to anticipate. The claim that Christ will rule on earth for 1000 years is a mistaken heresy called millinarianism. Christ made it clear His kingdom wasn't of this earth. The number 1000 would have symbolized the concept of "forever" and should not be taken as a literal timespan from the book of Revelation. Christ will return to earth only to defeat the Man of Lawlessness and complete the final judgment of mankind.
Unfortunately Antichrist is an actual man and Tribulation is a set of events which will occur right before the second coming of Christ. The mark of the beast as prophecied in Revelation clearly describes what most can now recognize as the implementation of a digital currency with a microchip or similar technology to be placed into or onto people on the right hand or forehead. The book clearly states this mark will be required to buy or sell. Obviously this hasn't happened yet, and therefore indicates a future event and a future Antichrist.
Many holy saints have been given prophecy on the Man of Lawlessness, in addition to what's found in the bible: in Daniel, Revelation, and St. peter's letter to the Thessalonians (2 Thessalinians 2). Please read the article linked below from the National Catholic Register to get some specifics on their prophecies regarding the Antichrist. This article is not exhaustive, either. In fact there is also prophecy that Ireland will sink into the sea prior to the tribulation and thus be spared the worst end times events. I wish I could remember the source for that one, but I don't remember. As for the event itself it was impossible to forget such an amazing prophecy, and I thought about trying to move to Ireland when I learned of it.
Another source of prophecy on this subject comes from Our Lady of LaSalette. Please see number 22-26 of Her prophecy in the link below. This prophecy was given in the nineteenth century, in France. Therefore, although naysayers want to dismiss the idea of an anticipated Antichrist (how tempting!), it's clear that he is coming. We just don't know exactly when. Many non-Catholics will want to dismiss this information because it comes from Catholic sources and Catholic saints. Even most Catholics don't know about this; it hasn't much been taught, but it can be found by those that seek. Sometimes the language of the bible is symbolic or of debatable interpretation, but when combined with more recent prophecies spanning the 2000 years since the bible was completed, it's clear the Antichrist is a man who will rule the world at the end of time.
X said (April 11, 2024):
Boothroyd is correct that Dispensationalism’s Pre-tribulation Rapture
and Futurist view of Revelation are unbiblical.
And he is incorrect in his Preterist view of Revelation which believes
the FINAL antichrist and FINAL tribulation happened before 70 A.D.
However, the Great Reset will be a hundred times worse that Nero’s
tribulation.
(FWIW, Preterism was first systematized by the Jesuit Luis De Alcazar.
And the Jesuits were started by Jews.)
Most seminary professors probably believe the Progressive Parallelism
view of Revelation. PP believes Revelation is fulfilled from Christ’s 1st
coming to his 2nd coming.
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