I'm feeling a bit rattled tonight, I'm not thinking straight. Just look at me, rattling on about my personal life when you've all come here to hear about the Rapture. It was revealed to Mr. Darby that the universe has two clocks, one earthly and one divine counting down toward zero. Some folks failed to recognize the risen Christ as their Messiah, and that throws a wrench into the gears of the divine clock. The earthly clock keeps ticking along, but the divine clock grinds to a halt with seven years left on its timer.
Divine history is put on pause, and has been ever since then.
We're living with only an earthly clock. But a parenthesis can't go on forever. The longer we live in this parenthesis, the worse things get. When the world gets so bad and so broken that it just can't go on any longer, that's when your divine clock snaps back into action. These last seven years will be the bloody and fiery rule of the Beast, which is why the instant the divine clock gets its ticker going again, the elect will be raptured.