2007-03-07 00:05:35 · 13 answers · asked by sam s 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The event where, upon Jesus' return, those who have died in Christ and those Christians who are then alive will be physically caught up to the clouds and meet the Lord Jesus in the air. We will then forever be with the Lord. (1 Thess. 4:16-5:2)
2007-03-07 00:12:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
MANY people believe that they will go to heaven when they die. But some think that they will be caught away to heaven in what is called the rapture. Is that your expectation?
The rapture is “the sudden disappearance of millions and millions of people without so much as a trace of where they went!” So said one Protestant evangelist. According to the Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, the term “rapture” refers to “the church being united with Christ at his second coming.”
2007-03-07 08:16:24 · answer #2 · answered by papa G 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The term "rapture" is used in reference to the Scripture that describes Jesus returning for the Church "....in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye (in a manner that will happen very quickly)", because the word "rapture" come from the Greek word "rapare" which means, " to snatch out or seize".
2007-03-07 12:43:20 · answer #3 · answered by bigvol662004 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a NEw Age concept that is meant to signify or describe a Biblical prophesy. That name is found no where in the KJV.
It was originally coined by a 15 year old Scottish girl in 1830 named Margaret MacDonald and a New Age minister started turning it into a buzz word in 1860.
It's mean to describe the process by which the 144,000 will rise up to God or how all of us will end up rising up to God.
It's a very subjective word, often used by people in love or on drugs to describe their feelings.
We don't know that we'll experience such a euphoria when that time comes.
But it serves the purpose of some religions and people to describe an event that no one has yet to experience.
2007-03-07 09:04:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
rapture -
noun
1. ecstatic joy or delight; joyful ecstasy.
2. Often, raptures. an utterance or expression of ecstatic delight.
3. the carrying of a person to another place or sphere of existence.
4. the Rapture, Theology. the experience, anticipated by some fundamentalist Christians, of meeting Christ midway in the air upon his return to earth.
5. Archaic. the act of carrying off.
–verb (used with object) 6. to enrapture.
I would agree with these definitions except that in the 4th definition it states that fundamentalist Christians believe. I am not a fundamentalist Christian. I am a Christian, but fundamentalists might agree with the rapture, but I am not one of those.
2007-03-07 08:34:30 · answer #5 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Greek word is "rapere" which means "gathering together" or "carried away"
It refers to what will happen to the saints (believers) according to 1 Thessalonians 4:16 & 1 Corinthians 15:51-58
And I can't wait for that Day......
It was also a pretty bad song by "Blondie" in the 70's
2007-03-07 08:13:19 · answer #6 · answered by primoa1970 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A Blondie song form the 80's
2007-03-07 09:11:51 · answer #7 · answered by Screamin' Banshee 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The time just before the beginning of earth's tribulation and rule by the anti-christ. Jesus promised in Matthew to remove the believers and not permit them to experience the rule of satan. Revelations declared the removal of believers just before the 7 year reign of evil and domination by satan.
2007-03-07 08:16:33 · answer #8 · answered by martha d 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A bogus doctrine fabricated in the 1800s
2007-03-07 08:12:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
A word frequently used by romantic poets to describe a response to the sublime.
2007-03-07 08:13:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋