FINAL WARNING: Setting the Stage for Destruction
“the house has been filled with people every day from all parts of
England, Scotland, and Ireland,” listening to her expound on the
Rapture and end-time events. He did not attribute the vision to
Margaret until his 1861 book The Restoration of Apostles and
Prophets; In the Catholic Apostolic Church.He said that during her long convalescence she had access to her
family’s “extensive library” which could have included Bibles like the
Self Interpreting Bible (1778), and the Columbian Family Bible (1822)
which contained cross references and marginal notes similar to that in
study Bibles; as well as a host of other sources which MacPherson
believes could have been used as a basis to develop her idea.In the March, 1830 edition of The Morning Watch, a quarterly prophecy
magazine that Irving edited, he wrote an article that stated that the
“translation of the saints taketh place ... before the judgments which
fall upon the earth at the coming of the Son of Man ... just before the
great consummation of wrath.” However, in a letter dated June 2, 1830,
Irving wrote that the “substance of ... Mcdonald’s visions ... carry to
me a spiritual conviction and a spiritual reproof which I cannot
express.”In Part 1 of an article called “Commentary on the Epistles to the Seven
Churches in the Apocalypse,” in the June issue of The Morning Watch,
by an author who identified himself only as “Fidus,” wrote from a Post-
Trib view. Yet, when Part 2 appeared three months later in the
September, 1830 edition, he clearly elaborated a Pre-trib view when he
wrote that the Philadelphia church “which receives the answer of its
faith in being caught up to meet him; which is thus kept from the hour
of temptation...” while the Laodicea Church is described as “the last
and dying stage of the Gentile church, before the gathering of the
Jews...”Subsequently, Dr. Cyrus I. Scofield discovered the new teaching on a
trip to England, and he took it back with him to his church in Dallas,
Texas; where it became part of the Scofield Study Bible as theological
concept, and then became the official position of the Dallas
Theological Seminary, as well as the Moody Bible Institute.I believe that the Word of God clearly bares me out that there will not