Is the rapture even a biblical concept?

Answer 1

The Rapture was the invention of Anglo-Irish evangelist and former priest John Nelson Darby (1800-1882) who introduced it at the Powerscourt Conference of 1832. It was popularized by evangelist William Eugene Blackstone (1841-1935) in his book "Jesus is Coming" (pub 1908) and it's inclusion in the "Scofield Reference Bible" (pub 1909). It has no scriptural basis.

Answer 2

If God is all merciful as He claims, who may be the recipients of His mercy if His trustworthy had to go through His wrath on the untrue by utilising being in the international while it happens. Noah and the flood became a rapture and it continuously follows the comparable development first God warns, it took Noah a one hundred twenty years to construct that ark with him giving warning universal, then God takes His human beings out, then comes His wrath. Lott in Sodom became the comparable way and there is usually a small remnant this is saved. The rapture of the Church will bypass disregarded by utilising the Christian international because of the fact a rather good variety of those mendacity preachers are creating wealth having 1000000000 Christians thinking that they are going to be aside of this adventure. incorrect. Revelations 3:10-13 represents the rapture for the word church is lacking till the final financial ruin of the Bible.

Answer 3

The Bible does seem to talk of future events including Christ coming FOR His Church and Christ coming WITH His Church. Some feel there is a time spank between those two events, perhaps 3.5 years or 7 years (the Tribulation / Great Tribulation). IMO, this seems to have Biblical basis, but is not definitive.

Others seem not as certain about the two aspects.

We can be certain that He has promised that He shall return, as the lightning shineth from the east even to the west; He shall come with the Clouds of Heaven, He shall so come as the Disciples saw Him to into Heaven [literally, physically, visibly, and a cloud received Him out of their sight[, that His feet shall stand in That Day on the Mount of Olives and an earthquake shall split the Mount in two.



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Answer 4

Actually no, the concept of the Rapture was first suggested by an English Evangilcal in the late 1800s.

Answer 5

It came from visions seen by prophetess Mary McDonald and was spread by John Darby in 1830. The odd thing is most people who believe in the rapture do not believe in modern prophets or revelation . . . yet their don't know the origin of the rapture theory.

Answer 6

1 Thessalonians.Paul says,..."Those of us who are alive and left will be "Caught Up"(Latin word is Rapturous)to meet the Lord in the air..."
That is the" rapture" and it will happen before the Great Tribulation.
I can't figure out why people don't accept it .If one believes the Bible,it's there in print.And there are more references in John and Corinthians(I think chapter 15 or 16 about being changed in the twinkling of an eye...

Answer 7

in luke the 17th chapter it talks about the subject your readers take OUT OF CONTEXT, towards the last of the chapter it talks about one taken and one left, it had in that chapter talked about Noah, and sodom and the destruction then someone ask The Lord where were they taken and then Jesus explains where the eagels also, they are taken but in death neither does The Bible say its a secret when Jesus returns READ 1 thes 4:15-18, then tell me if that sounds like its a secret to you, hay free bible lessons www.itiswritten.com free bible questions answered www.bibleinfo.com hay why not visit on Sabbath [satuday] a Seventh Day Adventist Church in your area, God bless

Answer 8

I believe 'rapture' is the word being used to explain Matthew 24:40-41...?? I'm not sure of that doctrine.

Peace be with you.

Answer 9

Yes.
1 Thessalonians 4 is where the "concept" came from, and it is again alluded to in Revelation 4.

Answer 10

Of course it is! The bible says that there is a time coming when "those who are alive and remain will be caught up to meet the Lord in the air". People get thrown by the word "rapture". It is taken from the Latin vulgate. Translated into Greek "harpazo", means "a catching up".