Margaret MacDonald: Taught Prewrath Not Pretrib

Contrary to the assertions of many prophecy teachers, the pretribulation rapture teaching cannot be traced to a revelation that Margaret MacDonald, a Scottish false-prophetess, received in 1830 from a deceiving spirit. If you examine the source materials for Margaret's revelations and the beliefs of the Catholic Apostolic Church (the Irvingite movement), you will see that she taught a pre-wrath rapture---the church goes through 3.5 years of tribulation, then is raptured prior to a short period of wrath. So Margaret MacDonald is not the source of the pretribulation rapture. She is the source of the prewrath rapture. In other words, it is the pre-wrath rapture that is traced to a revelation from a deceiving spirit.