I love reading this story over and over. The whole of dispensational theology starts with the visionary fits of a seriously ill Pentecostal and not from the storehouse of the Bible.
Yet so many are now almost entirely focused on the life-to-come at the expense of the life that now is. To quote a certain green wrinkled Muppet
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All his life has he looked away… to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. Hmm?
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Maybe a little too much. But maybe not. There is clearly more concern for what is coming that what is going on now. We all have our ticket, so this life is essentially irrelevant.
Of course, that does not explain the constant prayers to get over illness so we can stay here longer (for no apparent reason other than to pine about being elsewhere).
I know. This is a little too sarcastic. But then the Rapture hyperbole is worthy of much sarcasm. Not because there is any question that Jesus is coming again, but because of the misplaced emphasis on the future rather than on the here and now.
As for Darby's "spirituality," and the chasing after things spiritual that has followed ever since, it is part of the errant divide between the secular and divine, or spiritual. For the Christian, life should not be secular , but spiritual. All the way down to the hoeing of potatoes, activities in the marketplace, and the washing of clothes. It is not just something that happens in quiet times, or meetings of the church.