The Great Rapture Hoax

by Dave MacPherson

Book by MacPherson, Dave

210 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1983

Reviews

[Gene]

This book deserves 1.5 stars. I gave it one because it was so poorly written, organized, and edited. The additional 0.5 star was deserved for having informed me of Margaret MacDonald's influence on the Pre-Tribulation Rapture perspective that was taken up by John Darby. I didn't know much about the roots of the dispensationalist movement, so the history lesson was valuable.

But to get that benefit I had to put up with disorderly presentation of information, distracting personal details, and attempts by the author to be clever or cute that were simply in poor taste and unprofessional. A summary of ten pages or so with a historical timeline would have been just as informative, more clear, and better accepted.

I could hardly put the book down... because I wanted to be through with it as soon as possible.

[ChaplainBob Walker]

The Greek church who can read the new testament in their original language has never heard of the pre trib rapture. Neither had anyone else prior to 1830 AD heard of this lie. Millions of Christians in communist Russia died for their faith in the last 100 years. They were not worthy to escape death in tribulation? This is a false prophecy, a doctrine of devils, that when the unprepared find they will die for their lukewarm faith, they can come to the conclusion Jesus was a false prophet.

[Michael Walker]

Christians who adhere to the popular Dispensational Theology school will hate this book. The author gives (in rather caustic language, as I recall) a scathing critique of the Pre-Tribulation Rapture position, citing Scripture to support his viewpoint. Not a technical scholastic treatment.