If the concept of the rapture is only 150 year old.....?

Question

if christianity has only integrated the concept of rapture over the last 150 years, what did the first 1750 years of christiandom beleive?

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It was conceived by John Nelson Darby of the Plymouth Brethren in 1827. Darby, known as the father of dispensationalism, purportedly invented the doctrine claiming there were not one, but two "second comings." According to author Dave MacPherson, this teaching was immediately challenged as unbiblical by other members of the Brethren. Samuel P. Tregelles, a noted biblical scholar, rejected Darby's new interpretation as the "height of speculative nonsense." Other well-known scholars warned that the teachings were "unscriptural" (Spurgeon), "bizarre doctrine" and "grievous error" (Warfield).

Answer 1

i dont know .. i dont think the rapture is clearly defined even now ... and honestly , its a nice thought and i welcome it if its literal ... but it doesnt make a difference in how im going to live my life ...

Answer 2

For the first couple of hundred years, Christians and the converted 'thought' that Jesus would return in their lifetime....He tarried and the world went on. About 650 mohammad started up his religion and there was a lot of conquering and being conquered; the muslims took and held Jerusalem and built a mosque on the site that traditionally was where Christ was crucified, Christ was taken into heaven or where Abram was going to sacrifice Issac. It's a big rock, in a rocky country and hard to pinpoint who did what and where. But the bottom line is a muslim mosque sits on the Rock; which was a major issue in the crusades.

Things went along; but people were really concerned with continuing to live, especially when the plague took two thirds of europeans to a horrible death. It would be real hard to "sell" the idea of a rapture right then, I think. LOL

1666 and the London fire convinced a bunch of people Christ would return very soon; but, the ones in the fire would not have 'bought' the concept of a 'magic rescue' either.

Nope, wasn't until the late 19th and early 20th century that the 'heresy of the rapture' was broadcast. They say it started with an englishman; and, of course, once the latter day saints and jehovah's witness' got in on it, they began spreading the idea (and setting dates for it to occur). And Jesus didn't return on their timetable.

In 1973, the gates of hell were swung wide open and great a massive onslaught of the occult was released; including 'the exorcist' and 'the late great planet earth' ..which was all about a rapture.

As I see it, it is only the hedonistic generations since the 1960's that have had enough time on their hands to really get into this idea...and teach it.

Wow..I sure hope there is one !!! I sure don't want to be here when the seven seals are broken, the seven trumpets sound and the 7 bowls of wrath are poured out onto the world....

Did you know that Jesus Himself said: It will be so bad that unless God shortens the days of that devastation NO FLESH will survive??? However, He added: for the sake of the elect, God will shorten the days so SOME flesh will survive. Whew and I'll be in heaven as a spectator. Got my ticket right here.
LOL

Answer 3

They believed what the bible actually says, that at the end of the tribulation, right before the final wrath of God, that believers will be taken up into the sky with Jesus. The pretrib rapture was thought up by putting together unrelated scriptures, I suppose as a way to let themselves believe they wouldn't have to go thru the tribulation.

You can see in the responses that many christians are believing in something that simply doesn't exist. Christ told His disciples He'd be with them to the end, meaning exactly what He said, He'd be with them, not He'd take them away from it. Obviously, since 11 out of 12 of them met pretty horrible, painful deaths. The meeting in the sky is at Christ's return. As someone else said, a pretrib rapture would mean He'd be coming back twice, and the bible clearly states He'll come back only once. There will be that meeting in the sky, which has been renamed a rapture, but it won't be before the tribulation, or during it, it will be at Christ's only return.

Answer 4

It is a concept OPPOSED to good Biblical interpretation. The Bible teaches that EVERYTHING will be DESTROYED at Jesus' return...

2Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar. Fire will destroy everything in them. God will judge the earth and everything in it.
11 So everything will be destroyed. And what kind of people should you be? You should lead holy and godly lives.

Answer 5

yet i think of subsequently, faith isn't arguably the main perpetrator. Stupidity is. specific faith replaced into the source of the prediction, yet how a lot of human beings quite believed this replaced into going to take place? additionally, I quite have a puzzling time believing that this lady had a astonishing, pleasing existence until now listening to this and without warning desperate suicide replaced into the best answer. in spite of each thing, it is not as though suicide could substitute into impossible after this meant rapture. yet definitely, why is a woman in Russia even listening to approximately this? in case you like responsible somebody, blame the media for sensationalizing this ridiculous, and now all of us be attentive to unfaithful, tale.

Answer 6

Not all Christians believe in the Rapture. It is not biblical. Jesus will only return once not 3 or 4 times as the rapture believers believe

Answer 7

Where do you get that idea?

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", "take for oneself" or, simply, "to choose" (haireomai), all of which are akin to airo, "to raise up."

Answer 8

The concept of the rapture is part of the Bible itself so was part of Christs teachings of almost two thousand years ago. Matthew 24: 40,41 and 42. These are the spoken words of Christ himself, not merely an interpretation of later writings.

Answer 9

The concept is a little older than that.
Study 1Thessalonians chapter 4.

Answer 10

how would that be when John the Revelator wrote about it in the years after Christs death? the last book in the Bible? read it!