Do you be live in the RAPTURE-Why or Why not? It was not written with the original "scriptures"?

Question

It was written by a teen age girl from Ireland in the 1830's(true, really look it up)-If you do believe in it WHY?

ROD C- the bible IS "MANS"word

ROD C- the bible IS "MANS"word

Answer 1

"caught up in th air= Spiritual body...not as air as we know it"

look it up
Aer..in the greek.meaning "Breath of Life"..not air in the sky....Mature people..geez.

Answer 2

Actually I do, and I find it to be written in scripture, both in symbolism and literally. The word used in the Bible is "caught up" or "snatched away." In the Old Testament, Enoch was snatched away before the flood came, and he was a "type" of the New Testament saint being caught up or raptured. In 1 Thess. 4:17, Paul tells us about being "caught up" to meet the Lord when He returns for his church. While the word Rapture isn't used in the Bible, the word "rapture" is actually taken from the Lating Vulgate scriptures, from the word "raptuzio," or "snatched away." (From in the same passage.) The Latin Vulgate is much older than the 1830s. The word used in the Greek in that same passage is "Harpazo," and it means the same thing.

The idea is also scriptural; since the church is not intended to experience the Great Wrath of God which will come upon the earth in the final days (1 Thess. 1:10), the Bible tells us that God has prepared a place of safety for us with Him while we attend the Marriage Supper of the Lamb (Rev. 19:7-9). If you read about the Jewish marriage ceremony, you will see that several things took place:

1) The bride groom got engaged to the bride. 2) He went away to go and prepare a place for them to live, an additional room added on to His father's house. 3) The bride, meanwhile, was making her wedding dress and preparing for the wedding. She knew he would be back in ayear, but she did not know the exact time of his return. 4) When the time came, the bride waited with her bridesmaids at her home for his return. 5) When the Groom returned, his Groom's men would anounce out loud "Behold! The bridegroom comes!" 6) The Bride groom would then "snatch up" the Bride and "carry her off" to the wedding feast, with all of the bridal parties following. 7) They would have a 7-day celebration, followed by the newly weds moving into their new home.

My dear, all of this speaks of how Jesus will treat his church, which is his bride. (Read Mathew 25:1-13) The snatching away of the bride in the Jewish custom spoke of the snatching away of the church by Jesus, or "the Rapture." While we are with Jesus for the marriage supper of the Lamb, on the earth God will be pouring out his great wrath on the earth to punish all of those who rejected the salvation provided by His son. Just like righteous Enoch was snatched away before the judgment of the flood, the righteous church will be snatched away before the great wrath of God upon the earth.

Other rapture passages in the Old Testament: Isaiah 26:19-21, Zeph. 2:3)

So, Yes, the Rapture is much more than a theory; it is scriptural, even though the name for it originated in another language, Latin. God bless you in your studies!

Answer 3

"Rapture" is a word of Latin origin, not Hebrew or Greek, the languages of the Bible. Its Greek equivalent is harpazo, which is found in the Greek text of 1 Thes. 4:17. When translated into English, both words mean "to be caught up, or snatched away." Harpazo, the word Paul actually used, comes from roots that mean, "to raise from the ground" and" take for oneself".

1 Thessalonians 4:17 Then we who are alive and remain will 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.

And yes I believe this because the bible prophecy that has been fulfilled to date has been 100% accurate.

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

You are completely incorrect about a teenage girl writing that in the Scriptures.

The doctrine of the Rapture comes from I Thessalonians 4:17, "Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up in the clouds together with them to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever."

The words where we get the term "rapture" comes from the Latin translation of the Greek root word "harpazo."

Here is the original Greek translation of that passage (transliterated, since I can't get the Greek to come up properly in this forum): "Epeitahemeis hoi zontes hoi perileipomenoi hama sun autoisharpagesometha en nefelais eis apantesin tou Kuriou eisaera. Kai houtos pantote sun Kurio esometha."

When Jerome wrote the Vulgate (several centuries before some Irish girl in the 1830's was born) this is how he translated it: "deinde nos qui vivimus qui relinquimur simul rapiemur c u m illis in nubibus obviam Domino in aera et sic semper c u m Domino erimus." (I had to separate the letters in c u m, because of the censoring program here).

The Greek word "harpazo" and the Latin word "rapiemur" both have the idea of a violent snatching away. It is often translated "caught up."

The English word "Rapture" comes from the Latin word "Rapiemur" (the root also being rapturos). The doctrine of the rapture is there. The believers will be "caught up" (raptured) in the air with their Lord.

Answer 6

The word "Rapture" is never used in the Bible. But what it means is taken up...and Jesus will return and take us (Rapture) up to meet Him in the clouds.

That is a clear teaching of the Bible, and no doubt it will happen, just as everything else that the Bible said will happen, did happen. The Bible "can" be trusted !

Have a Blessed New Year!

Answer 7

That's not true.I Thessalonians,"The dead in Christ will rise first,then(here it is ) we who are alive and left will be caught up(the Greek word is Harpazo the Latin is Rapturos[Rapture])to meet the Lord in the air..."If you can't believe St.Paul well?....I would NEVER believe man over God's word but God's word says it is so therefore it is.
As far as Proverbs goes that is true ,but that promise is for the Jews.The have been promised ,since Abraham to inherit that land.That's why it was so important for Abraham to buy the cave at Macpeleh to bury his dead and why Jacob and Joseph were both returned to Israel for burial.When God resurrects them it will be to the land of Israel where as the Christian will reside in the New Jerusalem that comes down out of Heaven.
The other guy says breath of life....that word is Rouash in Hebrew and Pneuma(like pneumonia) in the Greek.Like I said the word in Paul's writings is Harpazo"Snatched away".
Dude I got your mature hanging.

Answer 8

The Bible actually teaches the exact opposite of the rapture, but even when people read it they do not believe it.

Note these words from Proverbs 2:21, 22 --

"For the upright are the ones that will reside in the earth, and the blameless are the ones that will be left over in it. As regards the wicked, they will be cut off from the very earth; and as for the treacherous, they will be torn away from it."

Answer 9

Rapture means to be "caught up"

1 Thess 4 says we will be "caught up" to meet the Lord in the air. I really dont care what a teenage girl came up with. The BIBLE says we will be caught up... if you dont believe it... look it up :)