Is there a Rapture?

Question

John 17:15 (JESUS praying to The Father) "I pray NOT that thou shouldest TAKE THEM OUT OF THE WORLD, but that thou should keep them from evil."

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Answer 1

The only Rapture I can say for sure exists is the song by Blondie..

Answer 2

NO!!
This teaching is false!!!
Amos 3:7 says "Surely The Sovereign Lord does nothing without revealing His plan to His servants the prophets"
God does not keep anything hidden/secret.
These are the verses commonly used by some religions:
-Matthew 24:37-41"...one will be taken, the other left."
-1Corinthians 15:51-53"...changed in a flash..."
-Thes.4:16-18"we who are still alive and are left will be caught up" (THEY ONLY USE A FEW WORDS)
Luke 17 gives us 2 classes of ALIVE at the return of our Lord.
Noah's day had 2 classes-SAVED and LOST
and in both classes those "left behind" were NOT alive.
They perished(.Luke 17:27,29)Jesus said, it will be just like this on the day The Son of Man is revealed. Verses 28-30.
How can it be secret when the Lord is coming with angels singing and loud trumpets sounding.
Revelation 1:7 says "He is coming with the clouds and every eye will see Him"
Matthew 24:27"For as lighting that is visible and comes from the east and is visible even in the west so will be the coming of the son of man"
The "Secret Rapture" teachings reach all the way back to the Reformation Era, when the established church launched a Counter-Reformation to contend with Martin Luther.
There will be no more opportunities to repent.
Revelation 22:11says"let him who does wrong continue to do wrong, let him who does right continue to do right; let him who is holy continue to be holy"This takes place BEFORE the coming of The Lord.
When The Lord comes every eye will see Him. The dead will resurrect and "we who are still alive will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet The Lord in the air"
1Thessalonians 4:17

Answer 3

NO
The rapture doctrine is unscriptural. The word itself is man-made.

I am a Christian but my hope is to live here forever on earth.
Jesus said that the meek will inherit the earth and at Psalm 37:9-11 we are promised--" For evildoers themselves will be cut off, But those hoping in Jehovah are the ones that will possess the earth. And just a little while longer, and the wicked one will be no more; And you will certainly give attention to his place, and he will not be. But the meek ones themselves will possess the earth, And they will indeed find their exquisite delight in the abundance of peace."

No one is caught up alive into heaven. The Bible tells us at
1 Corinthians 15:50-52----"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 (as most do in death), 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."

Notice it says that the dead will be raised, not the living. And since flesh & blood cannot go to heaven, that makes sense.
Those who are selected by God to rule as kings, priests and judges over the earth are relatively few in number when compared to the earth's population. Those of us who survive Armageddon will be blessed to finally live on earth under a righteous government that will never end.

Daniel 2:44--"In the time of those kings (human rulers,presidents,etc), the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms (human ruled governments) and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever.

LOBT

Answer 4

Hello and by the way "NO WHERE" in all the bible do you find that word "rapture" that comes because someone took ONE VERSE of The Bible out of context and put there own meaning in it, in Luke 17:29 Noah [No-e same name] and in verse 29 Sodom, and the verse folks take out of context is in verse 34-35 but it DOES NOT say anything about a secret, and JESUS CHRIST Himself says in verse 37 when asked where they were taken that they were taken IN DEATH, now do you want to READ FROM "THE BIBLE" what happens when THE REAL rapture happens, and ITS NOT A SECRET either in 1 Thess. 4:15 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.
4:16 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:
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.
4:18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
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Answer 5

This scripture does not suggest a rapture. It is Jesus praying to the Father, concerning the disciples. Jesus is asking God to protect these men, as they go out into the world to preach the gospel. He says that he's not asking that their work be stopped, but that "thou should keep them from evil."

Understand that the kingdom of heaven means The kingdom of God who is IN heaven. Jesus clearly tells us in Matthew 6:10 that God's kingdom will be here in Earth, not in heaven. "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, in Earth, as it is in heaven." Why else is Jesus coming back to sit on the throne of David and rule as King of kings? Wake up, my friend.

Answer 6

Most Bible's don't use the actual word "rapture". however, the Bible has several references regarding the separation of the righteous and the sinful. If one is going to believe the Bible tells the truth, then a belief in some sort of separation seems necessary.

Answer 7

Yes and Father Guido was raptured recently

Answer 8

Yes, God will remove all true born again believers before the 7 year period known as the tribulation. The Antichrist will then arise and will declare himself God. He will make a peace treaty will Israel but will break it after 3.5 years. He will kill all the people who don't take his mark on the hand or forehead of 666.

Answer 9

Yes, it is a result of lifting things that are very heavy. They have an operation for it---oh, wait! RApture! Never mind.

Answer 10

Rapture? That's one of the dinosaurs out of Jurassic Park isn't it? Seriously though, what ever passage you find in the bible you can usually find another that seems to contradict it. You'll never find piece of mind that's why they say you should just have 'faith'.