Rapture or Apocalypse?

Answer 1

The Rapture is supposed to be where the Heavens will roll up, Jesus will descend into our atmosphere to receive the raptured saints. Earth's population (All those not accepting Christ) left behind after the Rapture will experience "Hell on Earth." During the entire period of the Seven Years of the Great Tribulation.

The Apocalypse is the Wraith of God. This is where all are judged before God. No one gets sucked up to Heaven a la on the tail of a Hale-Bopp comet. We live out our existence on Earth, God just does a little spring cleaning.

If I were actually to believe in one, I’d have to say Apocalypse. As I’d have to say I think God would judge on ones merits, not just on the fact that they accepted Christ as their Savior, but that they were a good person.

Since Jesus’ true name is (Yahushua) Joshua and was later changed by the church after his death, when transcribing the New Testament also known as the Greek Testament. They’re not really praying to him anyway.

Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. Rev. 13:18 In Revelation 14:11 the mark is referred to "the mark of his NAME". In Revelation 13:17, 15:2 it's called "the number of his NAME". So the "mark" and "number" refer to his "name".

The Greek alphabet was assigned numerical values (The X gives the Z sound of Xylophone) X (=Chi) 600; Xi (shaped like a curled capital E) 60 and S (Sigma) 6. (Although Sigma is no longer used, it was) Thus 600, 60 and 6 spells XES, the Greek spelling for Zeus. In the KJV translation - where the name of the prophet Elisha (meaning 'My God is Saviour') has been retained in the paganised form 'Eliseus' (My god is Zeus). In similar fashion, the Name of the Hebrew Messiah YAHU'SHUAH (meaning 'YAHU is Saviour') has been paganised to read 'JeZeus', ('God is Zeus') which later became 'Jesus' in the English language (pronounced 'Jezus').

600 (X), 60 (Xi,=E), 6 (S) the number of his name, clearly spells XES the original Greek spelling for ZEUS.

According to Strong's Concordance reference #2424 (Greek) which leads to reference #3091, the original Hebrew name is (Yahushua) Joshua.. The Septuagint (LXX), which was translated by whom many believe to have been the Sanhedrin, translated the name Yehoshua or Yeshua as Iesous. "Yeshua" was translated by the early Pauline Christians as Iesous in Greek, probably in order to make his name more acceptable to Greek Pagans of the time.

Jesus said, "Perhaps people think that I have come to cast peace upon the world. They do not know that I have come to cast conflicts upon the earth: fire, sword, war.”

“…and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world”

Answer 2

WHICH ONE DO I PREFER?

"Apocalypse" means "Revelation."
"Rapture" literally means being carried away.

If I had to choose between the two, with no other specifications, I would prefer a revelation. No justification, really--just a matter of personal preference.

WHICH ONE WOULD I PREFER IF TAKEN IN THE USUAL MISINFORMED TERMS OF VULGAR CHRISTIANITY?

Well, in that case the "Rapture" is the idea that the saved will be "caught up in the air" before the Tribulation. The caught up in the air passage by St. Paul is actually speaking to people who were getting worried about so many of them dying and Jesus not having returned yet. They want to know what happened to all their friends who had been eaten by lions.

St. Paul tells them that when they die they "sleep," and will rise when Jesus comes. For those who die, the wait will seem like the "twinkling of an eye," and then they will be caught up in the air when Jesus returns to take his chosen home. Paul tells them that at that time, the dead in Christ will rise up to Jesus and the living will will also be taken up. This is not Jesus' return in triumph, but his coming to take his redeemed home, where they will wait with him to come again as an army at the battle of Armageddon.

There is another passage, a quote from Jesus, where he says two women will be working in a field and one will be caught up and the other left behind. It makes absolutely no sense without some ingenious interpretation.

Taken together, these two passages are supposed to explain the origins of the Rapture. This is the Rapture generally referred to by modern Christianity. The Tribulation is "the time of trouble spoken of in Daniel," and much expanded in Revelation.

Generally, and wrongly, "Apocalypse," which should refer to "The Revelation of Jesus Christ," the last book in the Bible, has become interchangeable with "the Tribulation," or that time right before the coming of Jesus with his angels and his saints to win the last battle and chain up Satan.

The Rapture is a term found nowhere in the Bible. It has come to mean a point in time before the Tribulation, when all the saved will be taken up with Jesus and escape the woes that are outlined in Revelation.

If I had to choose between going through the Apocalypse, which is now a term interchangeable with the Tribulation, and being caught up and taken out of it all....Oh, be serious. What wold you choose? It's a classic no-brainer.

IF YOU MEAN WHICH ONE IS ACTUALLY GOING TO HAPPEN,
well, the Apocalypse as a document is already a reality.

If you mean Apocalypse as Tribulation, you have to decide several things. Do you believe in New Testament scripture? If so, then the answer is yes.

If you are asking is the Rapture going to happen, well, serious scholars have left the meaning of the two women passage to history, past, present and to come.

As for the rapturing of the saved before the Tribulation, there are so many arguments about whether Jesus is coming back before the Tribulation (the Rapture), right after the Tribulation (Pre-Millennialism), or after the Millennium when Satan is chained up and we finally get it right for ourselves (Post-Millennialism), or at some point after we get it right during a Millennium that is ongoing in a scenario where the Tribulation already happened in 74 A.D., and hundreds of sub-arguments in all of those categories, that I wouldn't hazard a guess as to when or if anyone is ever going to be caught up with Jesus before the Tribulation.

Honestly, the only idea in modern Christianity that I wish were true is the Rapture. I can remember many nights before exams when I really wished the rapture were true and that it would happen before that ten o'clock class.

The real meaning of "Apocalypse" is a literary genre in which the writer takes the name of great writer of the faith from a generation or more past, and writes of current things in the manner he thinks the former writer would have done. If you read Revelation and any history about it, you will see what a good example of this genre it is.

Answer 3

Spiritual rapture for the true believers of the One True God.
Spiritual apocalypse for the unbelievers and the false believers.
True believers are those who sincerely do the Will of God as taught in the Holy Books of the Messengers of God.

Answer 4

Paul says in I Thessalonians ...then we who are alive and left will be caught up to meet the Lord in the air(Rapture)....because we are not appointed unto wrath.....
Apocalypse means an unveiling not necessarily annihilation.
In Rev.4 John is "caught up" to Heaven,and the church is not mentioned again until they come back with Jesus in Ch.19.
Yeah,Rapture(Greek word "harpazo" translated to latin word "rapturos" where we get Rapture from).

Answer 5

As I undergo in ideas. the rapture would come both earlier, after, or interior the approach the apocalypse. The rapture is escaping the apocalypse one way or the different. (until eventually i'm incorrect - that is been alongside time = on account that i'm now atheist)

Answer 6

Some people who watch to many movies think the Saved will be ruptured away during the Great time of trouble...wrong ! That was only in a fiction movie, it is not in the Bible.

According to the Bible Gods people will be here during that time.

For example God saved Daniel threw the lions den, God saved Moses and the people threw there troubles

God always saves His people threw troubles. Just as He will do at the end of time...Yes we will be here during the Apocalypse, and God will save us threw this Great time of Trouble.

God Bless & keep the Faith !

Answer 7

Rapture then a little later apocalypse (Then old earth and heavens destroyed, replaced by new heavens and new earth)

Answer 8

There is NO biblical foundation for the pathetic theory of the rapture. And apocalyptic literature, as any scholar will gladly tell you, is not prophetic in nature, but has a very relevant purpose at the time it was writting...giving hope to those who are suffering persecution.

Answer 9

It depends on which way you look at it.
Darkness over the throne of the Beast. Apocalypse.
A great crowd which no man was able to number. Rapture.

Answer 10

apocalypse, cuz it'll make a SMASHING movie! the fire and brimstone and such. Rapture? All you get is a second rated video game.