What exactly is the rapture? And where can I find Bible verses concerning it?

Answer 1

The rapture is the removeal of the church prior to the tribualtion period

John 14:6
1 Thess 4:16-17
1 Cor 15:51
Rev 3:10
1 Thess 5:9

Answer 2

The Rapture is a term used to describe the verse of Scripture where it is stated in part that "the Lord Himself shall descend with a shout....in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye". The translation of the saints bodies into their immortal ones is so fast that it's described as a "twinkling". The word "rapture" comes from the greek word "rapare" meaning "to snatch out or seize". The verses are in several books, but most prominently described in Revelation.

Answer 3

The Rapture Doctrine and Its Origin

"What is the doctrine of the secret rapture? Simply put, it is the teaching that Jesus Christ will return twice! First there will be a secret, unheralded return in which He will whisk all Christians, both living and dead, off to Heaven to be present there during the time that the Great Tribulation is taking place on earth. This secret coming supposedly could occur at any moment and will come without any advance warning to anyone. Seven years later (or three and a half according to some) Christ will return openly in power and glory to destroy the wicked and to establish His Kingdom.
The term "rapture" is used nowhere in the Bible. It is a term that has been invented by men and applied by them to what they term "the first phase" of the Second Coming. The Bible itself, however, nowhere says that Christ’s coming will occur in phases.
A nineteenth century British preacher, John Nelson Darby, was the one who developed the rapture teaching and began to promote it in the 1830s. He was the founder of the Plymouth Brethren Church and developed a scheme of scriptural interpretation called dispensationalism. The idea of the dispensationalists is that God has had different rules for different groups at different times. For instance, He had the law for the Jews and now we have grace for the Church.
Darby’s teachings were refined and popularized by C. I. Scofield, an American lawyer and minister who authored the noted Scofield Reference Bible at the beginning of the twentieth century. Primarily through Dr. Scofield, Protestant evangelicals came to generally accept the teachings of both dispensationalism and the secret rapture. These two ideas go hand in hand to blind many sincere people to God’s real">message to Christians in the end time.
Proponents of the rapture point to 1 Thessalonians 4 as their primary proof of a "secret coming." They then proceed to divide all scriptures that discuss the return of Jesus Christ into two categories. First are the scriptures that discuss the resurrection of the saints and their gathering to Christ. Secondly are the scriptures that discuss Christ taking vengeance on wicked and rebellious people and nations. Their idea is that these events are separated by a period of years.

If you want more information; please go to these links that talk about it clearly.

http://www.lcg.org/search/search.php?query=rapture&type=and&results=10&search=1

Answer 4

I Thessalonians 4:13-18 is where the "rapture" verses are mostly located.. the word rapture itself isn't in the bible.

Answer 5

I know Paul wrote that we would be taken up into the sky, but the word "Rapture" is a false translation. And if you read either Matthew or Luke 24 -26 (it's somewhere in there), it talks about things that are happening now, but actually it's talking about Revelations.

Answer 6

The Rapture as told in the Revelations, is the taking away of Christians to heaven before the 2nd coming of Christ. Its how God will save his church from the coming tribulations and destructions that will occur. (Believing Christians will be in Heaven while it all unfolds). Read Revelations...you'll find many verses regarding the subject.

Answer 7

If you really want to learn about the Rapture, go to www.pre-trib.org and read the Article Archive, particularly articles written by Thomas Ice. It's the best, most scholarly site on the web that I've ever seen regarding the Rapture.

Here's an intro article from pre-trib.org:

http://www.pre-trib.org/pdf/Hindson-TheRaptureAndGloriou.pdf

Answer 8

The rapture is hard to explain. Basically if you read the book of Revelations it explains what it is. Revelations was written by the disciple John after he was exiled to the island of Patmos. He had a revelation (probably how the book was name.) in which God revealed to him what would happen at the end of time.

Answer 9

There's a little bit in revelations that christians claim as a rapture. It talks about the living believers being taken into heaven before the apocalypse comes. It also says something about 144,000 people being in heaven already, some argue those are the numbers of people that will be saved, or are guaranteed a spot in heaven, or are the original isrealites that made it to heaven. Who knows, it was a bad acid trip that got put into the bible.

Answer 10

The Rapture is the end of the world. This reference in the Bible can be found in Revelations (the last book of the New Testament)