Thanks, as usual, for helping to focus on the key narrative—in a piece that is a little vague.

Let me try to get to the core story: Evangelicals think the Rapture is a basic Bible idea held since the beginning. In fact, it's an eccentric reading whose origins have been concealed and seem to lead to a weird sex drama in 1830 featuring a teenage girl having a Pentecostal-type babbling experience.