Who was Darby? |
Darby Simplified – by adayofsmallthings.com |
![]() Leading preachers such as Moody, Charles Spurgeon and more recently John Macarthur and Billy/Franklin Graham have followed much of his dispensational, pre-millennial’ teaching – expecting Jesus at any time to rapture His Church (See 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18) He insisted God has not abandoned Israel. (See Romans 11:1) He influenced Lords Palmerston and Shaftsbury, leading to the Balfour Declaration and thence to the establishment of the State of Israel. Christ’s ChurchHe said ‘The Church is in ruins!’: Many lovers of Jesus left organised sects forming Christian assemblies gathering to the Lord’s Name. (See 2 Timothy 2:19-22) JND perceived the truth of Christ as the Head in heaven, with His body here, the church heavenly in origin and destiny, perfectly united in the sight of God, and its hope of being with Him at the imminent (pre-millennial) rapture. Pre-tribulation (pre-trib) Christians know him as ‘the father of dispensational theology. As his epitaph says ‘Unknown, yet well known’.
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Notes 1. The quotation ‘John Nelson Darby is the most influential Evangelical Christian that Most Evangelical Christians have never heard of’ is by Dr. Thomas Ice (Director, Pre-Trib Research Center) in his Foreword to ‘For Zion’s Sake’ by Paul Wilkinson, 2007.
2. I use the pseudonym ‘Sosthenes’ so as not to be associated with any particular group of Christians. I am not seeking anonymIf you follow the link ‘Introduction’, you will arrive at the real ‘me’ – God’s blessings DJR.
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