http://pre-trib.org/articles/view/a-history-of-pre-darby-rapture-advocates
From the above, I can see it started with a few people, then got more exposure in the colonies, then got going further with Darby.
But there are the conservative Lutheran Church Missouri Synod and Calvinist/Reformed/Orthodox Presbyterian denominations that don’t teach dispensationalism/rapture/etc.
I’m Missouri Synod Lutheran background & attend an OPC church.
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But you’re still being told by the nicolaitan in the pulpit that you need not do as Yeshua and his Father asked.
No wonder Yeshua said that few would find his path.
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“But there are the conservative Lutheran Church Missouri Synod and Calvinist/Reformed/Orthodox Presbyterian denominations that don’t teach dispensationalism/rapture/etc.”
The same with the now defunct American Lutheran Church. Luther famously disliked the Book of Revelation so the end times focus of the dispys isn’t found in Lutheran theology. The Great Reformers had other more pressing issues to attend to.
I don’t have a dog in the rapture fights but I like following the debate.