A LEGENDARY FABLE OF A EUROPEAN ANTICHRIST
AND IT’S LINKS TO A FIRST OF THE WEEK RAPTURE
JOHN DARBY POPULARIZED AFTER NAPOLEON WARS
IT CHANGED PROPHECY TAUGHT TODAY INTO A MESS
I SHOW THIS IS TRUE IN DANIEL’S 70 WEEKS OF YEARS
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The View of Napoleon as the Antichrist was evidently widespread when he invaded Russia. After he was defeated at Waterloo England, mainland Europe, and Russia were sick of war, and there was a great fear of it once again breaking out. At that time believers thought they would still be here until the last trump in the tribulation period and were scared they would have to stay on earth until it sounded.
I Corinthians 15:51,52 – Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, [52] In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
Napoleon’s Wars had a great influence on John Nelson Darby’s popularization of a new theory which came out of the Evangelical and Great Awakening Eras in 1730 and 1740. It spread like wildfire after John Darby began to teach it between 1831 and 1833. You will find exhaustive details of all this on this web site by scanning back though our 10 blogs on Daniel’s 70 Weeks of Years Prophecy.
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Two Paragraph Excerpt from “History Today” Volume 41, Issue 1, 1991
By Janet Hartly
The invasion of Russia had unleashed a religious war against the French. Segur accused the Orthodox clergy of deceiving the peasants by telling them that the French were a ‘legion of devils commanded by the Anti-Christ’. Armand Domergue formed the same opinion.
In Mogilev province simple people saw Napoleon as the Anti-Christ. This view of Napoleon was evidently widespread; at the level of peasants and tradespeople the Old Believers had a long tradition of discovering Anti-Christs while at the more sophisticated level we may note Pierre’s Rosicrucian discovery of the same fact in Tolstoy’s War and Peace. He then discovers, of course, that the calculation for his own name rendered very awkwardly as L’Russe Bestuhof also made 666, so determining that he would be the one who would put an end to Napoleon!
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John Nelson Darby, famous for the “first of the week rapture position,” was 11 years old when Napoleon was defeated in 1815 at Waterloo. He was born in an era of war, and when the telegraph was invented he thought it was “a sign that the end of the world was approaching; he called the telegraph an invention of Cain and a harbinger of Armageddon.”
I was 7 years old when Hitler invaded Poland, and 9 years old when Japan attacked America. Most preachers and Sunday School teachers taught that either Hitler or Mussolini were the Antichrist, but some continued to teach that Israel had to be back in the Holy Land before Antichrist arose, and a few still taught he would come from Syria. Being less than 10 years old I did not have much interest in the identity of Antichrist or location of his appearance, but it did influence me when I was stationed in the Holy Land for more than a year in 1952 and 1953, and in Europe for three years from 1959 to 1961. I finally made my choice as to his nationality and where he would arise before I retired from the USAF National Security Agency in Washington in 1971. I stayed off four distinct subjects until I finished post graduate work at Arkansas Tech University in 1976, which were: (1) The Nationality of the Antichrist, (2) Where Antichrist would arise, (3) The time the rapture would occur in relation to the tribulation period, and that the three “HE’s” in Daniel 9:27 are Jesus Christ, not the Antichrist. I began to teach these four things at Dardanelle MBC in 1976. I lectured in more than 600 Colleges, Universities, Seminaries and Churches from 1978 to 2013, but I concentrated on the teaching that God, not man, would use his earth to fulfill tribulation period prophecies. I started the Dardanelle MBC Web Site in 2000 and begin to teach what I believed worldwide. I did not lie to people about what I believed on these subjects, and I taught them at Dardanelle MBC, and on the road I simply keep them to myself. After I had my five by-pass heart surgery in 2005, my ability to keep up my torrid yearly schedule of 30 plus lectures per year was limited, and I have been led to warn as many as will consider what I believe before trumpet 7 sounds in Revelation 11:15, 18.
Revelation 11:15,18 – And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. [18] And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
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The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of wars between Napoleon’s French Empire and a series of opposing coalitions. As a continuation of the wars sparked by the French Revolution of 1789, they revolutionized European armies and played out on an unprecedented scale, mainly owing to the application of modern mass conscription. French power rose quickly as Napoleon’s armies conquered much of Europe but collapsed rapidly after France’s disastrous invasion of Russia in 1812. Napoleon was defeated in 1814; he returned and was finally defeated in 1815 at Waterloo, and all France’s gains were taken away by the victors.
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John Nelson Darby was born in Westminster, London, and christened at St. Margaret’s on 3 March 1801. He came from an Anglo-Irish landowning family seated at Leap Castle, King’s County, Ireland. He was the nephew of Admiral Henry D’Esterre Darby and his middle name was given in recognition of his godfather and family friend, Lord Nelson.
Darby was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Dublin where he graduated Classical Gold Medallist in 1819. Darby embraced Christianity during his studies, although there is no evidence that he formally studied theology. He joined an inn of court, but felt that being a lawyer was inconsistent with his religious belief. He therefore chose ordination as an Anglican clergyman in Ireland, “lest he should sell his talents to defeat justice.” In 1825, Darby was ordained deacon of the established Church of Ireland and the following year as priest.
It is believed that John Nelson Darby left the Church of Ireland around 1831. He participated in the 1831–33 Powerscourt Conference, an annual meeting of Bible students organized by his friend, the wealthy widow Lady Powerscourt (Theodosia Wingfield Powerscourt). At the conference Darby publicly described his ecclesiological and eschatological views, including the pretribulation rapture. For about 40 years William Kelly (1821–1906) was his chief interpreter and continued to be a staunch supporter until his own death.
Darby saw the invention of the telegraph as a sign that the end of the world was approaching; he called the telegraph an invention of Cain and a harbinger of Armageddon.
He died 1882 in Sundridge House, Bournemouth and is buried in Bournemouth, Dorset, England.
Darby is noted in the theological world as the father of “dispensationalism”, later made popular in the United States by Cyrus Scofield’s Scofield Reference Bible.
Charles Henry Mackintosh, 1820–1896, with his popular style spread Darby’s teachings to humbler elements in society and may be regarded as the journalist of the Brethren Movement. Mackintosh popularised Darby, although not his hyperdispensational approach, more than any other Brethren author. In the early twentieth century, the Brethren’s teachings, through Margaret E. Barber, influenced the Little Flock of Watchman Nee and Witness Lee[14]
Darby is credited with originating the “secret rapture” theory wherein Christ will suddenly remove His bride, the Church, from this world before the judgments of the tribulation. Some claim that this “the Rapture of the Saints”was the origin of the idea of the “rapture.”
After Napoleon the assumption he would come from the distant north of Israel was reinforced and it grew so strong it was no longer an assumption – It was a fact. In World War 1 German Kaiser Wilhelm was the Antichrist, then either Adolph Hitler or Benito Mussolini in World War II, and finally it was Joseph Stalin, who some thought was the chief prince of Magog (Russia). But Antichrist is the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, whose two tribes, when Ezekiel wrote chapters 38 and 39, were occupying Lebanon, Syria, and northern Iraq. This is the area currently being taken over by ISIS and other extremely vicious Islamic Jihad Terrorist groups. I have taught the Islamic Antichrist would arise from this Area for 40 years.
My advice to the White House today (August 8, 2014) is to help the Kurds fight the ISIS by supplying them WHATEVER they need to blow these Demons back to hell by continuing multiple air strikes the U.S. began today.
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