John Nelson Darby first solidified and popularized the pre-tribulation rapture in 1827.
C I Scofield was instrumental in entrenching the Pre Trib Rapture theory in fundamentalist Christianity through his Scofield Reference Bible.
Hal Lindsay made Pre Trib Rapture theory mainstream through his books and the movies based upon those books.
Because of the inferences and suppositions necessary to defend the Pre Trib rapture theory and its lack of consistency with specific passages such as and it is likely that the theory is nothing more than a False Narrative.