Who believes in the rapture? is it biblical?

Answer 1

No I don't believe in the rapture. There is a whole lot more to it than that. The rapture is not biblical. People take one verse out of the bible and misuse it. Does anyone try reading before and after the verse. You would be surprised to know that the one taken is, in fact the one destroyed. The one left is the survivor.

Answer 2

According to this Rapture doctrine, when Christ returns, all of the elect who have died will be raised and transformed into a glorious state, along with the living elect, and then be caught up to be with Christ. The key text referring to the rapture is 1 Thessalonians 4:16–17, which states, "For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the archangel’s call, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first; then we who are alive, who are left, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so we shall always be with the Lord."

Virtually all Christians hold that the Second Coming will be preceded by a time of great trouble and persecution of God’s people (2 Thess. 2:1–4). This period is often called the tribulation. Until the nineteenth century, all Christians agreed that the rapture—though it was not called that at the time—would occur immediately before the Second Coming, at the close of the period of persecution. This position is today called the "post-tribulational" view because it says the rapture will come after the tribulation.

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MY opinion:

People have been proclaiming that they are living through the "end times" for waaaaay too long. There's always some unhygienic street-corner evangelist crackpot sputtering about how the world is going to end and that all the heathens better get the Lord harassed into their unsaved souls.

It STILL hasn't happened. The sky isn't falling. The oceans aren't boiling. Pigs are most definitely NOT sprouting wings and taking to the skies. They've been barking about it for years and years and years and they'll STILL be barking for years to come.

It's a scare tactic, a convenient freak- the- everliving- crap- out- of- folks magic wand that can be waved about in dramatic fashion any time the religious collective feels the soul harvest is running dry.

Trust me... go about your life. Ok, I'm sure you will anyhow considering there's really no alternative option (besides suicide, and I've heard “God” frowns upon that), but just make sure to keep in mind: STAY CALM. DON'T PANIC.

Answer 3

I believe in a future catching away...which is what many call a rapture. But, I believe this will take place after the tribulation (not before). So, I don't buy into the pre-tribulational rapture understanding that is espoused in the fictional "Left Behind" books.

Answer 4

.The 'rapture ' of the Church occurs simultaneously with Christ's second Coming in glory and the resurrection of the dead.............All occur together,(see I Thess. 5:15-17); ..."AFTER the Tribulation of those days"(Matt. 24:29-31)
"...At the LAST trumpet"... I Corin. 15:52

Don't be deceived by the fictional "Left Behind" series....which is based on a common misconception that claims the 'rapture' occurs years before Christ's Return. This is not found in Scripture.

Answer 5

I believe that Jesus is coming back for the believers whose names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life (Rapture).

Yes it is Biblical per the following Scriptures.


1 Thessalonians 4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose gain, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

Answer 6

Ecclesiasticus
Chapter 1

36 Be not incredulous to the fear of the Lord: and come not to him with a double heart. 37 Be not a hypocrite in the sight of men, and let not thy lips be a stumblingblock to thee. 38 Watch over them, lest thou fall, and bring dishonour upon thy soul, 39 And God discover thy secrets, and cast thee down in the midst of the congregation. 40 Because thou camest to the Lord wickedly, and thy heart is full of guile and deceit.

Read the Apocolypse.

Christ says "I come quickly"

The Apocalypse Of Saint John
Chapter 22
16 I Jesus have sent my angel, to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the root and stock of David, the bright and morning star. 17 And the spirit and the bride say: Come. And he that heareth, let him say: Come. And he that thirsteth, let him come: and he that will, let him take the water of life, freely. 18 For I testify to every one that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book: If any man shall add to these things, God shall add unto him the plagues written in this book. 19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from these things that are written in this book. 20 He that giveth testimony of these things, saith, Surely I come quickly: Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.



Many Christians who do not agree that there will be a pre-tribulation rapture of the Church point out that it is a relatively new doctrine, first popularized in the 1800s and elaborated on subsequently. There are whole denominations that reject it for this reason. The Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox do not accept it either, as such a thing as "rapture" was never taught by any of their bishops, from the beginning. Instead of "being taken up into Heaven", these churches follow the scriptures (such as Isaiah) clearly describing a physical Kingdom of Heaven that will be on a renewed Earth, following the Great Tribulation, the Resurrection of the Dead, and Judgment Day. For all practical purposes no Christians held to the pre-tribulation rapture theory before Darby in the 1820s.

Source(s):

Latin Vulgate
Douay-Rheims Bible

Answer 7

The Rapture is unbiblical. The Second Coming will only happen ONCE. That is what I believe.

Answer 8

The term is not out of the bible. Did anyone give a chapter and verse where it can be found?

The prophesies are as vague and obscure as those of Nostradamus. So people will come up with the stories they want;

Answer 9

A lot more than you'd expect, given that it takes a certain amount of intelligence to tie one's shoes or use a computer.

True story: A few years ago, one such believer suffered a tragic fate in an unfortunate, though not necessarily unavoidable, highway accident. A young man with a full blonde beard was going to a party wearing a toga. He had a bunch of inflatable sex dolls which he'd filled with helium and put in the back of his pickup under a tarp. While he was getting gas, a wind blew the tarp off, and the sex dolls started to float away. As the man struggled to get them back, a devout woman in a passing car mistook him for the newly-returned Son of God, and the sex dolls for the resurrected bodies of the elect ascending to heaven. She climbed through her sun roof and jumped into the air.
Sadly it wasn't the Rapture, she didn't follow the helium-filled sex dolls into the sky, but was instead run over when she hit the pavement.

Answer 10

All Christians should believe in it, because "yes" it is Biblical.

Its called the second coming of Jesus.

Have a wonderful new year!