true church? Pretty funny, coming from the bunch that brought us the dark ages, sale of indulgences, killed every protestant reformer of the 16th century and prohibited laymen from reading the Bible. When the reformers got their hands on the Bible they found that both Daniel and John (in Revelation) identified the office of the pope as an anti-christ. Hundreds of thousands of catholics fled to protestantism and were persecuted for it. Pope Leo commissioned two jesuits, Robert Bellarmine and Francisco Ribera to deflect the focus of the antichrist story away from the pope. They dreamed up the story of the rapture, a future antichrist at the end of time, and a seven year tribulation. That was dragged over into protestantism by John Darby in 1800, but didn't catch on until Hal Lindsay wrote "The Late Great Planet Earth" in the '70s. LeHay and Jenkins Left Behind came next, making it accepted by 90% of protestants. It has no basis in scripture and is false doctrine.
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