Can ANYONE point out the word Rapture in the Bible to me?

Question

Surely there is 1(one) Christian within Yahoo Answers that can do this. If not, can you point out the Verse that refers to the "Rapture"....not interpreted as....

Answer 1

the word rapture is not mentioned in the bible except as a term of happiness and delight. This is an idea that christians have developed from the bible. It is an interpritation of scripture.

Answer 2

No. The word "rapture" does not exist within the pages of the Bible. It is a word that originally meant something like "incomparable happiness" and has been co-opted by pre-millennial Christians to describe the expected events associated with the return of Christ and the physical ascension to heaven of all Christians, living and dead. The ideas for this concept are scattered throughout the New Testament, but the word "Rapture" will not be found in the pages of Scripture, unless it is as a footnote or commentary.

Answer 3

It isn't in the bible at all. The verse people keep saying is about the rapture is about the resurrection and Christ coming. It has been misinterpreted many times. It is also about the changing of our bodies from a mortal state, to an immortal or eternal state. We don't understand this, and it beyond our comprehension.

I do think that many of the people who believe in the Rapture will be taken by the Anti-christ, and won't realize he's not really Christ. Although, it isn't for me to say what will happen at that time, I'm not God, or Christ, I'm not the judge, thankfully!!

Answer 4

1 Thessalonians 4:17 --=--17After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.

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 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, called The Great Tribulation, or after it when Christ comes to earth to establish his kingdom, taking over rulership of the world for 1000 years. (see Millennialism)

Answer 5

The origins of the doctrine of the rapture are hotly debated. The Orthodox, mainline Protestant, and Roman Catholic churches, which represent the majority of Christians worldwide, have no tradition of such a teaching and reject the doctrine, in part because they cannot find any reference to it among any of the early Church fathers and in part because they do not interpret the scriptures the way that Rapture-believers do.

Answer 6

Rapture is a Latin word and is used in portion in the Vulgate
The views of the differing theologies come into play here. Some believe in a pre-millennial rapture--some believe in a mid-millennial-rapture--some hold to a post millennial-rapture.- some hold that there will be no rapture-amillennial

The following scriptures describe the coming of the lord(the catching away of the Saints) I thes. 5

13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

Answer 7

hi, i'm Christian and study in the manuscripts; the word rapture will not be found in the Bible, not because it is actually written using different words, but because it does not exist. The entire thing is a load of garbage, and one of the main reasons that Scripture tells us that the mass majority of even Christians will be deceived by Antichrist in the end times.
You see, Antichrist is coming first, disguised and pretending to be the real
Christ. He will come in as preacher/teacher/savior; he won't kill people, but be exactly the opposite of what people imagine the bad old devil will act like.
Antichrist comes on the 6th trumpet. The true Christ doesn't gather back to us in any form or fashion UNTIL AFTER THAT EVENT. So what does this mean for all those rapture believers?
It means that when this first "jesus" comes on the scene, they are gonna believe its Christ come to rapture them to safety before all the terrible things happen to those "left behind". Well, they will be taken by Antichrist, who is the first "jesus" to come on the scene. Ya know those books called "left behind"? They say you better pray that you are one of the ones taken in the rapture - but when you read in the Bible about the two workers in the field, one is taken the other left - if you back up to capture the subject and the object of what is being discussed, its that the Antichrist comes first. YOU WANT TO BE ONE OF THOSE WHO ARE LEFT BEHIND.
The ones taken, are taken by Satan.
This is why there will be many when Christ returns who will wish for rocks to fall on them and kill them rather than face the true Christ. They are all devil worshippers.
Christ is returning for a virgin bride (spiritually speaking, of course) and he returns to find His spiritual wife (no gender is intended here) with another husband.
Can you imagine the Churches who will fall all over each other trying to get to serve this fake? They will be leading hundreds of thousands of people to worship antichrist, and are so Biblically illiterate, that they don't even know it.
The rapture is not only false, it is dangerous.
If ya wanna know what God thinks about the rapture, read Ezekiel 13:18 and on......
I think God makes it quite clear when he says: "I hate those who teach my people to fly to save their souls". God is quite able to protect his children without flying them away.
They have work to do in the field, and are not supposed to be looking for a way to "escape" from it. Its dispicable.

Answer 8

The Bible doesn't actually have the word "rapture" in it, but it talks about meeting with God in the clouds after a loud trumpet call.

1 Corintheans 15:51-53 says, "Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed— in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality."
Those verses are talking about when all of the believers in Christ shall be caught up with God in the clouds and the Christians shall go to heaven.

I hope this was helpful to you. God Bless.

Answer 9

To the best of my knowledge, the word Rapture doesn't exist as such in the Bible. The closest expression in the Greek is "harpazō," which is translated as 'caught up':

1Thessalonians: 4:17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

The term "Rapture of the Church" is inferred from this verse but never directly called by that name.

Answer 10

The word Rapture is not in the Bible