The rapture - what is it?

Question

Please explain to me what is supposed to happen.

Answer 1

No one knows FORSURE....there are many interpretations, Luka.

The most popular Christian belief is that the rapture occurs prior to the second coming of Jesus, where all who know Jesus are sent up to heaven, first the dead and then those who are alive in the world. Literally, every person dead and alive "zoom" up to heaven, in a literal instant.

A non believer could be in a car with a believer, and sudenly the beleiver just vanishes. Happens all over the worls in an instant.
It is a sense of hope for christians, that there is a point for us to live this struggle on earth.

There is the marriage supper of the Lamb, a 7 year feast, and then the years of the tribulation, hell on earth. Following this Jesus sets up his kindom on earth.

many people will tell you it is not true, just a fairy tale, etc.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion.

I believe the Christian point of view on this matter, as I am entitled.

Thanks for asking, have a wonderful day, Luka!

Answer 2

Be prepared for a million people to tell you it's unscriptural. Please don't pay attention. The Rapture is mentioned in early Church writings (I'm NOT referencing the Gnostic "gospels") and was not "invented" in the 1800's. Folks are also fond of saying "the word rapture doesn't appear in the Bible!" This is also incorrect; the word "rapturo" appears in the Latin Vulgate translation of the Bible. It is from the Latin that the Christian church has adapted the word Rapture for this event.

Our best description of the Rapture may be found beginning at Revelation 4:1. We'll see a door in the sky (I'm not sure how this works if we're inside or asleep), hear a trumpet and a command to "come up here!" We'll instantly be transformed and brought into the presence of God.

This will happen prior to the beginning of the Tribulation. All believing Messianic Jews and Christians will be called.

It's as simple as that. You may also wish to read 1 Thes. 4:13-18.

Peace.

Answer 3

This answer is from Jonah Immanu, author of Alienated Planet Earth and the End that Will be Coming to Our World published by Trafford Publishing (ISBN 1-4120-5015-4) trafford.com/04-2823

The word rapture originates from the original Latin Vulgate translation (Saint Jerome's) translation of the verb "rapturo" which means "caught-away" and it has been anglicized (changed into English) to the word "rapture" in contemporary times to describe the phenomena in modern-day English by Christians.

Our Lord first spoke of the rapture in the Olivet Discourse of Matthew 24 verses 37 through 47, most notably, verses 40 and 41, the latter referring to 2 women grinding at a mill - "one would be taken and the other left". Later, Christ's disciple Paul covered the topic of being "taken" or "caught- up" (raptured to modern Christians) to meet Our Lord Jesus in the clouds just before the tribulation would come upon the world. Follow-up scriptures by the disciple Paul which describe the rapture as a "mystery" can be referred to in Paul's epistle, Chapter 15 of 1 Corinthians verses 51-54. This is corroborated later again in Paul's epistle of Chapter 4 of 1 Thessalonians verses 13 through 18 of the New Testament.

Chapter 15 of my nonfiction, entitled Do I Stay or Do Go?
discusses the topic more thoroughly. Basically, before the antichrist has been revealed, Christ's faithful believers will be
refuged or sheltered by an event which catches-away his faithful Christians in the clouds before the Tribulation and Great Tribulation by having been miraculously taken to heaven to be safe with Jesus while all hell breaks loose on our alienated-from-Christ planet which will be led by the antichrist during that time. It is compared with how Noah and his family was saved from sudden destruction in the global flooding of past history by being closed-up in Noah's ark when flooding overwhelmed humankind.

Answer 4

It's when Jesus comes down from heaven and takes all believers home with him. It's going to happen before the tribulation. For more info on all of this you should read Revelations; it explains everything.

Answer 5

According to some it's the taking away of Christians, those who have not received the mark of the Beast 666 what ever that is, to be with God immediately. Others will have to go through a great time of trial and tribulation, if they get through, usually martyred, they too will make it.

Answer 6

Rapture means joy and usually refers to when Christ comes again see the book of Reveations. God bless you and thank you for posting.

Answer 7

RAPTURE IS JUST A WORD WE USE TO DESCRIBE AN EVENT MENTIONED IN
THE BIBLE.
JESUS AT MATTHEW 24. "TWO WILL BE IN THE FEILD. THE ONE TAKEN, THE OTHER
LEFT!"
PAUL MENTIONS IT A NUMBER OF TIMES, ONCE AT 1 CORINTHIANS 15, WHERE
IT DESCRIBES THE SPIRIT BODY, AND THE RAPTURE." CHANGED IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE!"

Answer 8

Its when xians believe Jesus will return and take them up to heaven, leave the rest of us heathen to suffer under the antichrist.

Or perhaps the writer, John, had eaten some peyote and bad hummus the night before he wrote down this nightmare allegory.

Answer 9

the call of the faithful home before the great tribulation and the judgment of the earth

Answer 10

rap‧ture  /ˈræptʃər/ noun

1.ecstatic joy or delight; joyful ecstasy.
2.Often, raptures. an utterance or expression of ecstatic delight.

It's just a nice flowery word for sex.