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Somebody tells you, “The pre-tribulation rapture was invented by Jesuits,” and they say it with total confidence. We decided to slow that claim down and put it on the timeline. If we’re going to talk about Bible prophecy, the Council of Trent, and the Counter-Reformation, then dates matter, sources matter, and reading what people actually wrote matters.

We start with a moving reminder of why truth is never just academic: a listener behind bars writes to say jail became “rescue,” not just arrest. From there, we shift into the heart of our teaching series on the Roman Catholic roots of amillennial Calvinism, and then we tackle five reasons the pre-tribulation rapture did not come from Jesuits. We look at what’s often attributed to Francisco Ribera, what the early church fathers believed about futurism, and why that’s not the same thing as claiming a pre-trib rapture was manufactured in the 1500s.

Then we address the name that gets brought up constantly in conspiracy-style arguments: Manuel de Lacunza. We compare his prophetic system with later dispensational writers like John Nelson Darby and C. I. Scofield, point out what Lacunza actually taught, and highlight the inconvenient detail critics rarely mention: his work was hostile to Rome and was banned by the Pope. We also walk through evidence used to argue pre-trib teaching predates Lacunza, and we end with a simple challenge from Scripture: don’t be deceived, test the spirits, and search the Scriptures.

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