question about the Rapture?

Question

I know and understand that the word Rapture is not in the Bible, what I would like to know is where the word came from. In a way it fits the Second of Christ and all, we will get rapture up to meet Jesus in the sky. But I always have heard it and used it even though I know its not in the Bible. So please if anyone knows where it came from let me know.all welcome to answer.

Answer 1

While the term "rapture" is not in the Bible, the concept of Jesus returning to take His followers to heaven, just as He promised in John 14:3 that He would return. The rapture--Jesus' return for His followers--occurs immediately after the tribulation but immediately before God's wrath is poured out on unbelievers. The first link below examines pertinent passages concerning the rapture and tribulation.

Answer 2

No, The word rapture dose not appear in the Bible. The return of Jesus Christ is reffered to as the rapture because rapture means to gather and Jesus will gather all of his followers and take them to Heaven. In the mean time all of the people left behind will have 7 yrs. before Christ returns again but to start this 7 yr. tribulation a person will sign a peace tready with Isreal. This person will take over the wourld for 7 yrs. Halfway through the 7yrs. He will require everyone to take the mark of the beast on their forehead or their right wrist. Anyone who refuses this mark will be beheaded and anyone who takes it will spend eternity in hell. You can find more information about the rapture in the book of revelations in the Bible.

Answer 3

Will You Be Caught Away to Heaven?

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.”

Some find it disturbing to think of leaving friends and family members behind to meet Jesus Christ. Yet, many believe that the rapture must occur. Will it take place? If so, when?

Varied Views of the Rapture

The Bible shows that before the start of Christ’s promised Thousand Year Reign, there will be a period called the “great tribulation.” Said Jesus: “Then there will be great tribulation such as has not occurred since the world’s beginning until now, no, nor will occur again.” (Matthew 24:21; Revelation 20:6) Some place the rapture ahead of the great tribulation. Others expect it during that time. Still others think that the rapture will come after that unparalleled distress.

The posttribulation view was predominant until the early 19th century. Then, in England there developed a movement headed by a former Church of Ireland clergyman, John Nelson Darby. He and like-minded Anglicans became known as the Brethren. From his Plymouth base, Darby traveled to preach in Switzerland and elsewhere in Europe. He asserted that Christ’s return would occur in two stages. It would begin with a secret rapture, in which the “saints” would be caught away before a seven-year period of tribulation devastated the earth. Then Christ would appear visibly, accompanied by these “saints,” and together they would rule on earth for a thousand years.

Darby stressed the need to be separate from the world, and those sharing his views eventually became known as the Exclusive Brethren. B. W. Newton headed a different faction that believed in the rapture but not in a pretribulation one. Posttribulation advocate Alexander Reese maintained that “the Secret-Rapture theories are a menace to the hope of Christ’s Coming.”

Pretribulationists believe that this difference in viewpoint is serious enough to affect “the nature of [their] hope in relation to the coming of Christ.” Others place confidence in a “partial rapture theory,” believing that those who are most loyal to Christ will be raptured first and the more worldly will be taken later.

Many evangelical groups herald an imminent rapture of faithful Christians. In view of differing opinions, however, a booklet published by Britain’s Elim Pentecostal Church says: “Whilst we subscribe to a broad outline of events related to the return of the Lord Jesus . . . , freedom is allowed in the interpreting of prophecy according to the conviction of the individual. Many accept a non-dogmatic position, patiently waiting for the events themselves to unfold the prophetic programme.”

God’s inspired Word, the Bible, is the standard by which we need to measure the truthfulness of all beliefs. (2 Timothy 1:13; 3:16, 17) Therefore, what does it say about the rapture?

Answer 4

The Rapture is the popular term used to describe one aspect of the Lord's return as presented by the Apostle Paul in 1 Thessalonians 4:17. The word "rapture" comes from the Latin rapere used by the Vulgate to translate the Greek word harpazō ([Strong's #726]), which is rendered by the phrase "caught up" in most English translations.

Answer 5

I think some people got this confused with the first resurrection--which is for those who are basically saints and worthy to rule on this earth for 1,000 after Christ returns. Such people who are worthy to be raised in this resurrection are ones like David, Noah, Abraham, Issac, Jacob, etc.
There will be a total of 144,000 raised in the first resurrection.
A small number of this 144,000 will actually be living at the time of Christ's return. With those, they will not experience death--they will be changed instantly into the spirit form that all of the others will be in.
The second resurrection talked about in Revelations (after the 1,000 year reign of Christ is over) will be the resurrection of the remaining dead who has ever lived. This will be the resurrection of the judgment.
There is no "rapture" where people will be allowed to escape without suffering.

Answer 6

The term rapture is derived from the Latin Vulgate's rendering of the Greek word "harpazo"
which appears in I Thessalonians 4:17, which is translated "caught up" in the KJV, NIV and NASB among some of the translations. The word means to "snatch away forcefully" and is found in other passages of Scripture, for instance when Philip was snatched away by the Holy Spirit and transported to a different location (Acts 8:39) and in Paul's description of a man who was caught up into paradise (II Corinthians 12:2,4)


"Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope. We believe that Jesus died and rose again and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. According to the Lord's own word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left till the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After 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. Therefore encourage each other with these words."
I Thessalonians 4:13-18

"I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: "Death has been swallowed up in victory."
"Where, O death, is your victory?
Where, O death, is your sting?"The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain."

I Corinthians 15:50-58

Answer 7

1 Thess. 4:13 says the dead in Christ will rise first, when the Lord comes for His people (v. 17). Then the living believers will be caught up. From the Latin for "caught up" comes the term "rapture."

Answer 8

The word Rapture doesn't appear in the Bible is true.
The concept of the great gathering and people being taken up is Biblical.

Answer 9

You know what GOD thinks of those who teach Rapture?

Eze 13:20 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against your pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them FLY, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make them FLY.

HE hates those that cover up "the truth" with lies/pillows.

Eze 13:21 Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.kjv

Answer 10

It simply refers to the gathering of souls when Christ returns.

Some denominations have come to believe that Christ will come twice, once to reap the righteous and once to reap the wicked, but this is not supported in Scripture since there is only one day of the LORD.