
The Leaders of Doomsday Theology
Candlelight's doomsday theology stems from dispensationalism, a 19th-century plot by figures like John Nelson Darby, whose Plymouth Brethren secrecy hid divisive schemes. Convicted fraudster Cyrus Scofield spread it via his Zionist-backed Reference Bible, as Hal Lindsey's failed 1980s Armageddon predictions and John Hagee's CUFI fueled "Greater Israel" wars. These "architects" wove fear and ethno-nationalism into evangelicalism, sidelining Christ's love for speculation, leaving Christians adrift in division.

Cyrus Scofield - publishes the Scofield Reference Bible in 1909
A convicted fraudster, Cyrus Scofield, forged a divisive, Zionist obsessed eschatology that prioritizes fear over faith. His ties to New York’s elite Lotus Club, rubbing shoulders with Zionist leader Samuel Untermeyer, hint at shadowy networks funding his 1909 Scofield Reference Bible - revised in 1917 to embed dispensationalism's speculative "Greater Israel" narrative into American evangelicalism. This influential text, shaping millions, now stands exposed: a tool of hidden agendas that sows division and end-times hysteria, betraying the Gospel's call to love and unity for those seeking historic truth.
Readings:
Heresy in the Heartland: C. I. Scofield: Scoundrel, Shyster, and Scalawag
The Scofield Bible: Its History and Impact on Christianity
Christian Zionism: Road-map to Armageddon?
Dispensationalism: Rightly Dividing the People of God?
Waiting for Armageddon Documentary
John Nelson Darby - invents dispensationalism in 1840
The mastermind behind rapture theology, peddled a divisive theology that splits Israel from the Church and obsesses over a rapture, stoking geopolitical fervor for a “Greater Israel.” His shadowy Plymouth Brethren ties and lack of transparency raise sharp questions about whether hidden agendas drove his apocalyptic vision.
Note on Origins: While John Nelson Darby is the primary architect of dispensationalism, theologians point to Margaret MacDonald, a teenage Scottish girl from the heretical Irvingite movement, as the inspiration for Darby’s Rapture invention due to her 1830 “vision”.
Readings:
Exposing The Rapture Myth You’ve Been Taught All Your Life
Darby, Dualism, and the Decline of Dispensationalism
Zion's Christian Soldiers?: The Bible, Israel and the church
Hal Lindsey - publishes "The Late Great Planet Earth" in 1970
Hal Lindsey's "The Late Great Planet Earth" (1970), published after the Six-Day War, popularized doomsday dispensationalism by interpreting Israel's expansion towards "Greater Israel" as a fulfillment of prophecy, predicting an imminent rapture that never came. His failed 1980s end-times forecast undermined his credibility, yet his theology, mirroring Candlelight's unconditional support for Israel, continues to divide Christians by prioritizing geopolitics over love and unity. Lindsey's legacy is one of alienating speculation, not faith.
“The Soviet Union, as prophesied in Ezekiel 38-39, will launch a massive invasion of Israel, leading to Armageddon. This could happen any day now.” - Lindsey
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John Hagee - founds Christians United for (Greater) Israel in 2006
Hagee's doomsday rants, preaching a ticking "Doomsday Clock" and urging unconditional militaristic support for Israel to speed up Armageddon, risk inciting geopolitical chaos to force God's hand. His apocalyptic calls, like predicting a Russian-Iranian attack on Israel, raise questions about whether he's pushing a dangerous accelerationist agenda, mirrored by Candlelight's Israel-obsessed theology.
"God sent Hitler to help Jews reach the promised land" - Hagee
Readings:
Righteous Gentiles: Religion, Identity, and Myth in John Hagee's Christians United for Israel
The Dangerous Doctrines of John Hagee
Beginning of the End: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Coming Antichrist
Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question