The Rapture
The concept of the pre-tribulation rapture is said to have been introduced to John Darby in the early 1800s. It is said that he attended a charismatic prayer meeting in Scotland in 1830. A 15-year-old girl, Margaret MacDonald, went into a prophetic state during which she declared there would be a Rapture before the Tribulation. However, there is evidence that this doctrine started to appear in the early 1700s. The idea of a pre-tribulation rapture was popularised by John Darby and then a man named Cyrus Scofield, an American preacher. The Scofield Bible was his work, though he is probably most famous for advocating controversial dispensationalism. John Darby was also a protagonist of this doctrine. Controversial because it was wrong.
There are two calls to endure, Rev. 13 and 14. The second one is after the warning not to take the mark of the beast. The mark of the beast occurs during the Tribulation. Why give a warning if you will not be there? In Rev. 7, when the question is asked, "Who are the 100 million before the throne?" the answer is those who would not take the mark of the beast but chose to die instead. Although the clearest statement about it comes from;
Matthew 24–29, "Immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken." Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. At the end of the Tribulation, Jesus appears in the clouds and starts moving, getting faster and faster. As the speed increases, the angels remove the saints. The earth is harvested. The only ones left are those who do not try to flee, but fall to their knees and repent, as in Joel's Day of the Lord description.
The pre-tribulation Rapture is truly a malevolent ideology. What it does is make the saints not prepare for the times ahead. It will be the biggest reason why saints have fallen away from the faith since the beginning of time. Mr. Darby and Mr. Scofield, the main drivers, although not originators of the rapture scam, I expect they are in for an awful time. Sadly, it has become very popular these days. We will come across other reasons in the scriptures that make a pre-tribulation rapture impossible. This is enough for now.