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To: af_vet_1981
Oops! My mistake. It should read 1 Thess 4:13-18. You really enjoy jumping on that though. ;o)
416 posted on 08/30/2015 8:04:01 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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To: MHGinTN
Oops! My mistake. It should read 1 Thess 4:13-18. You really enjoy jumping on that though. ;o)

If it is your mistake, why are you blaming me ?

Now that you want Latin Rite Catholics so you can use the Latin word rapiemur and derive the word "rapture" from it, here is a Catholic approved translation showing "the Rapture" is the gathering up of the saints in the air to meet the LORD Jesus Christ in the clouds as he returns to earth the same way he ascended from the earth, ie., in the Second Coming the angels told the Apostles about; He is coming to judge the living and the dead. This happens after the apostasy, just as the Apostle Paul wrote.

We do not want you to be unaware, brothers, about those who have fallen asleep, so that you may not grieve like the rest, who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose, so too will God, through Jesus, bring with him those who have fallen asleep. Indeed, we tell you this, on the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will surely not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself, with a word of command, with the voice of an archangel and with the trumpet of God, will come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. Thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore, console one another with these words.
First Thessalonians, Catholic chapter four, Protestant verses thirteen to eighteen,
The New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

420 posted on 08/30/2015 8:20:27 PM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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