The word “rapture” doesn’t appear in the bible.
(throws rhetorical bomb and runs like crazy for the hills)
CC
Wait!! What about SECRET rapture?
>>> The word “rapture” doesn’t appear in the bible.
Actually it is... It’s in the Latin translation.
It’s where we get the word Rapture.
The Word “trinity” doesn’t appear in the Bible, but the phrase “Father, Son, and Holy Spirit” does. We refer to that phrase as “the Trinity”. Similarly, the phrase “caught up” appears in the English Bible, and is a translation of the Greek harpazo, which is raptus in Latin. From which we get rapture.
Sure it does:
11 Thessalionias 4:17 deinde nos qui vivimus qui relinquimur simul rapiemur cum illis in nubibus obviam Domino in aera et sic semper cum Domino erimus
11 Thessalionias 4:17 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.
But thanks for playing.
Rapture or not...
The Heart should be looking for His Return
To rejoice at His Appearance.
And so come lord Jesus!
Neither does “trinity”, “incarnation”, or “ Bible”.
There are words we use to identify concepts more easily and readily and rapture is one of them.
Just because the word itself isn’t used as some people want it to be or as they think it should be, doesn’t mean the concept isn’t taught.
Neither does 'bible'...So the bible doesn't exist...And neither does Catholic...So Catholicism doesn't exist...
Yes, it does. The Greek text uses words which translate as "gather", "catch up", and "reap". (We get "rapture" from the Latin translation of "catch up". See 1 Thess 4 below).
(Matthew 24:31) And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
(Mark 13:27) And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.
(1 Thess 4:16-17) 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: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up [rapiemur] together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
(Revelation 14:14-16) Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and sitting on the cloud was one like a son of man, having a golden crown on His head and a sharp sickle in His hand. And another angel came out of the temple, crying out with a loud voice to Him who sat on the cloud, “Put in your sickle and reap, for the hour to reap has come, because the harvest of the earth is ripe.” Then He who sat on the cloud swung His sickle over the earth, and the earth was reaped.
Real Christians saved by the Grace of God and belief in Jesus Christ will soon be gone.
We hope you join us in this great gathering in the clouds to be forever with the Lord!
John 14:3
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.