Did Jesus promise us the *Rapture*?

Question

Just to make sure that we will recognize a prophecy of the Rapture when we happen across it, let’s look at the descriptions of the Rapture in the letters of Paul.

1 Cor 15:51-53 (NRSV) – Listen, I will tell you a mystery! We will not all die, but we will 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 imperishable, and we will be changed. For this perishable body must put on imperishability, and this mortal body must put on immortality.

1 Thess 4:13-18 (NRSV) – But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who have died, so that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have died. For this we declare to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord.
Thoughts?

Answer 1

Yes and in my Bible it says that the ones still alive will be caught up in the clouds with the dead, in the air with Jesus. We will remain with Jesus. We are to encourage each other with this knowledge. Thank you, for pointing this out. It is wonderful to be reminded. God Bless!

Answer 2

there is not a rapture, Jesus promised he'd be with us till the tip of days and that the kindgom is right here. Revelation is a sizable dream written in codes of symbols; i don't doubt in any style the visions are real yet I additionally am conscious that the numbers and creatures have uncomplicated meaning in Jewish context. I do have self assurance as quickly as New Jerusalem is composed of Earth people who stay righteous under the grace of the Holy Spirit and the Crucifixion shall ensue of their alloted land similiar to that of Ezekiel's description. nonetheless New Jerusalem is composed of earth and the Christ enter's it rather is East gates and leaves it rather is West to decide the international after offering his sacrifice (Himself on the go). Judgement would be rapid and violent like a theif in the night, accompanied by utilising the peace of eternity's exhilaration. Christ's kingdom is only united in the "rapture" nor does Christ ever leave the Earth as no count number if it rather is Hell, the taking of all truthful and ignoring the international to the devil like many "rapture" theories state. Ezekiel removes the potential for Preterism, to not point out the fact there will be a judgement of all (as quickly as New Jerusalem is composed of Earth) look on the myth of the Weeds or Drawing of the internet

Answer 3

If you check the dictionary you find rapture means great joy or happiness. Nowhere do you find the meaning as the second coming of Jesus. Will there be great rapture? Sure will!!! But there will also be great disappointment as there will be many that will call on the rocks and mountains to fall on them to hide them from the face of the Lamb of God. If it is as the NRSV says and Jesus brings those that have died, why is it that He would need to come at all? Could He not just lay to rest all those that would go with Him to Heaven? If you look at the original greek you find it is the dead in Christ, those that are dead on the Earth, that He comes to get as well as those that are alive yet. Nobody goes to Heaven when they die, they go to the grave. $1000 cash to the first one that can prove from the bible only, anything otherwise.

Answer 4

The term "rapture", and most of the popular ideas associated with it, arose out of the dispensational and millenarian (Adventist) movements of the mid to latter 19th century. That suggests that the idea of a "rapture," especially the idea of a "secret" rapture, is far more historically and culturally conditioned then it is a biblical or theological truth. The biblical references, that are most used, such as yours to support a rapture do not clearly support the idea at all. They all firmly support a "second coming" (whatever form that might take), a Resurrection, and a Judgment, all without giving any solid details about any of them.

I think the biblical, answer is, we do not know. We do know "That our Lord will return, the dead will be raised, and the final judgment will take place." I'm perfectly happy with that.

Answer 5

To answer ramall1T:

Not only did Isaiah write about the Rapture, i.e. 600 years before the Lord Jesus Christ's first Advent, there were two cases of 'the Rapture' or 'snatching away' in the Old Testament....

Enoch & Elijah the prophet.

"And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him." (Genesis 5:24)

"And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven." (2 Kings 2:11)

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Furthermore, what you said about those who will be disappointed, 'But there will also be great disappointment as there will be many that will call on the rocks and mountains to fall on them to hide them from the face of the Lamb of God,' refers to those who do not accept Jesus Christ as their Saviour & Lord. At His Second Coming, they will be terrified.

Answer 6

What Is the Rapture?

Essentially it is the belief that Christians will be snatched away, suddenly taken out of the world, to be united with Christ “in the air.” As Tim LaHaye wrote in his book The Beginning of the End: “We will immediately leave this earth. No matter what we are doing we will suddenly be taken out of the world.”
He continued: “The Rapture of the Church will be an event of such startling proportions that the entire world will be conscious of our leaving. Some have suggested that there will be airplane, bus and train wrecks throughout the world when Christian operators are suddenly taken out of the world. Who can imagine the chaos on the freeways when automobile drivers are snatched out of their cars!”
Indeed, some drivers have put bumper stickers on their cars reading: “In Case Of Rapture This Car Will Be Driverless.”
Ok..Enough Already..

Answer 7

Rapture theology was invented by a man named John Darby in the mid 1820's. He was kicked out of his church for it in England (and eventually kicked out of the country), but found a following in the U.S. In a way it's sad, but Americans have been notoriously illiterate when it comes to the bible and have been suckered into many things like this in the past. Most Christians have never even read the bible cover to cover or studied the history of their faith. What Darby did is "cut and paste" various sayings of Paul's into this "rapture theory". This is kind of like cutting quotes from the story about Balaam's donkey with an Isaiah prophesy and a hymnal from Psalms and come up with a theory that "God is actually a donkey who shall come out of heaven in the clouds". The rapture makes for an interesting Hollywood movie, but it has little to do with the bible.

Answer 8

Oh..plz.

Matt.24:29 Immediately * after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

24:30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

AFTER THE TRIBULATION...what happened to the rapture before the trib.?

Answer 9

The concept of the Rapture was an interpretation invented about 200 years ago. It is a tradition of man and is not to be trusted!

Answer 10

Isaiah believed in a Rapture, see Isaiah 26:20-21.

And a pre-trib rapture at that.