If its what im thinking of, when is it going to happen????? Does it have anything to do with religion????
2007-03-05 14:04:09 · 17 answers · asked by oceanbabii20 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
the rapture is when the end time comes and God brings all of the believers and repenters and good souls to heaven before all the pain happens.
2007-03-05 14:06:43 · answer #1 · answered by sarah s 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The rapture is the removal of the church prior to the tribulation period
John 14:6
1 Thess 4:16-17
1 Cor 15:51
Rev 3:10
1 Thess 5:9
2007-03-05 14:07:10 · answer #2 · answered by Robert K 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Hi, I'm Christian, but the rapture theory is a ridiculous idea. If you combine taking a few Bible verses out of context, and combining that with no knowledge of Hebrew idioms (sayings), and finally mix that up with people who listen to unknowledgeable preachers instead of reading the Bible with understanding - ya get the rapture. Haven't you seen those pictures of cars crashing on highways because the drivers disappeared? Air planes crash, and all these people are just suddenly "gone". The earth falls into confusion and fear, etc etc..
The rapture is not Bible truth, and I study in the original manuscripts - I guarantee you that nobody is going anywhere. Christ will return here on the 7th trump, and at no time before that will he come - not to rapture people or for any other reason. Antichrist comes on the 6th trump. Hopefully these rapture-believers can count, because if they think the first "jesus" who appears on the scene, has come to rapture them to safety, well, they'll be going with the Antichrist; he's the first coming, and he's gonna come disguised and pretending to be Jesus Christ himself. This is the great deception of the end times. Mark Chapter 13 has a chronological order of events that lead up to the coming of Christ; there is absolutely nothing listed there to suggest that any portion of the population will be missing - The Bible states that the deception of the end times will "deceive the whole world", and it sure will. Can you imagine the tv preachers who will lead entire congregations to worship the devil? Its gonna be the biggest religious revival of all time.
Even the Prophets wanted to live in these times.
What a trip.
2007-03-05 14:16:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
In conservative Protestant Christian eschatology, the rapture ("harpazo" in Greek in 1 Thessalonians 4:17) is the name given to the event in which all Christians living on earth are simultaneously transported to Heaven to be with Jesus Christ. This is a common belief among Fundamentalists, Evangelicals, Pentecostals, Baptists, and many independents. While almost all Christian groups believe that those who are saved will have eternal life, the term "rapture" is applied specifically to the event in which all Christians on earth simultaneously ascend to join Christ, and are transformed into immortal bodies. The concept was popularized since the 1830s, and recently since the 1970s, by proponents of the premillenialist, and in particular the dispensationalist interpretations of scripture. According to these theories, world events indicate that the fulfillment of prophecies of the end times is imminent, and that the rapture could take place at any moment.
The timing of when the rapture will take place is a key point often discussed and debated between denominations and individuals who accept the notion. The most common[citation needed] is that the rapture will take place immediately prior to the great Tribulation, a seven-year period preceding the second coming of Christ to the earth. Others propose that the rapture will take place either mid-way through the Tribulation, or after it when Christ comes to earth to establish his kingdom, taking over rulership of the world for 1000 years.
2007-03-05 14:07:18 · answer #4 · answered by Bee 1 · 3⤊ 3⤋
The rapture is a word that's not even in the Bible, but people use it to describe what Jesus promised to do when He comes again: Take people who want to go up to heaven to live and reign with him. You get to go, whether you're dead or alive at the time of His Arrival. The signs of His coming foretold in the Bible have pretty much already taken place, so it may be very soon! The way to be ready is to talk to Him in your mind, ask Him to forgive and make your heart ready, and He will.
2007-03-05 14:12:27 · answer #5 · answered by shirleykins 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The rapture is when Jesus Christ returns and brings the believers of God back to Heaven to take them away from the end of times.
2007-03-05 14:09:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
rapture comes from word rapturo or harpazo. It means to snatch away by force. The bible speaks of this happening to believers in Christ and is closely associated with the last days when the book of Revelations begins to be fulfilled.
2007-03-05 14:09:38 · answer #7 · answered by sheepinarowboat 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Rapture means "caught up" which is in a verse in Thessalonians that says "we who are alive and remain will be caught up . . ."
So anybody that says it's not in the Bible, there was not one single English word in the original, and "rapture" would be just as valid a translation as "caught up" because it means the same thing.
When is it going to happen? Nobody knows.
2007-03-05 14:07:54 · answer #8 · answered by supertop 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
According to Revelations, the
Rapture will be when the world ends.
People will rise from their graves and\
go to heaven. Then living people will follow.
2007-03-05 14:07:55 · answer #9 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
the rapture is what us christians belive will happen with the end of the world.it is where we take on our heavenly forms and go to heaven so we are with god and jesus and so we nolonger know pain fear sickness or sadness.basicaly we shed our mortal coil in exchange for a more perfect form
2007-03-05 14:09:15 · answer #10 · answered by dragonlover17814 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋