There are a couple other eary figures that believed either in the Rapture or the Millenial reign. Augustine believed in the millenial reign, but later repented when corrected. I think it was the same for Justin Martyr. I think the earliest Rapture was in the 400's or so, from a monkpriest near Constantinople. He was condemned for his heresy and stood alone. It's one possible way of reading the Bible, so it's not surprising that it surfaced early. The thing is though in each case it was the result of people trying to firgure stuff out for themselves, not being taught the faith passed down. More importantly, once the faith was set down & accessable, there was no more rising of these ideas. It's not a matter of a continuing tradition, a group believing in the pre-trib rapture down through the ages, it's a matter of a movement based on a "vision" starting in the early 1900's or so, and then when challenged searching through history to try to find someone they could claim a "connection" to. So if it's true, God let the true faith die out for centuries, and then brought it back through much, much later. To me that would mean that He broke His promise to always be with His Church. The Orthodox faith on the other hand has continuity from the earliest times to now. It's not just that it's old and the other is new, it's that it's continuous and the other is an idea that's spiratically popular.