Talk:Margaret MacDonald (visionary)

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We need references here. -Rey

Note: I've now made Margaret Macdonald (Prophecy) into a redirect to this article. See Talk:Margaret Macdonald (Prophecy) for that article's talk page. -- The Anome (talk) 11:59, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Spelling and NPOV
The spelling of her name is supposed to be "Mac" - as in Margaret MacDonald.

The article is not NPOV. There is no evidence presented for the associations, yet the article weaves in 7 references to dispensationalism and 6 to Darby.

Dave MacPherson is the one who originated the argument about MacDonald and the supposed association with dispensationalism. However scholars have shown that Dave MacPherson's arguments are untenable. First, there is the evidence that Darby wrote about his view in 1827, at least 3 years before the MacDonald prophecy came about. Second, MacDonald's prophecy - when read closely - show that she advocated a posttribulationist partial rapture. Its not a two staged event. But to try and make it into a two staged event, MacPherson's argument is based on highly speculative interpretation of certain words. Third, there is the glaring fact that neither Margaret MacDonald or Irving were dispensationalists themselves. Adding to these are other factors, such as that MacPherson's arguments depend on accepting the existence of a conspiracy among dispensationalist leaders (i.e. his book Incredible Cover-up). Lamorak (talk) 03:57, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Well take a look at this book : Darby himself wrote in his "Short but serious Examination of...'Daniel the Prophet'" (1850), p. 67, that he came to "understand" pretrib in 1830 and not 1827an understanding that came to him only after the Irvingite journal The Morning Watch (which he regularly read) began to clearly teach pretrib in its Sep., 1830 issue (which saw "Philadelphia" raptured, in a partial rapture scheme, before "the great tribulation," pp. 510, 514!).


 * Thanks, Lamorak. I just now changed the title of the article to "Margaret MacDonald (visionary)" (corrected the spelling of "MacDonald"). Wideangle (talk) 20:57, 16 March 2015 (UTC)