Dispensational premillennialism built a detailed end-times timeline around the Rapture

Evidence

Darby produced an elaborated version of premillennialism, in which sacred history was divided into periods or “dispensations,” concluding with a complicated sequence immediately before the Second Coming. He argued that the end-times would commence with a seven-year period called the Tribulation. At the outset of the Tribulation, the saved would be Raptured, “caught up in the air” to be with Christ in heaven until his return. For the unsaved, however, the seven years of the Tribulation would be a time of increasing violence, persecution, and terror, much of it at the Antichrist’s hands. — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy, 248

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the Tribulation, Rapture, and dispensational framework that later conspiracy writers folded into New World Order scenarios.
• XREF: connects to: Rapture imagery has been secularly reworked as alien evacuation — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic…, 1045; Premillennial theology insulated fundamentalists from the war’s disillusionment — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 48; Premillennial eschatology structurally undermines social justice commitment — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 265 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Premillennial theology insulated fundamentalists from the war’s disillusionment #expands (0.78) — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 48
• Premillennial eschatology structurally undermines social justice commitment #complicates (0.72) — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 265