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To: Salvation

“Where is the word “rapture” in the Bible? I haven’t seen it. LOL!

I believe you’ve been shown it multiple times FRiend.


126 posted on 06/20/2017 9:08:34 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: aMorePerfectUnion; Salvation

Here’s a bit of help from the Pre-Trib Research Center:

The Term “Rapture”
First of all, the word “rapture” is found in the Bible, if you have the Latin Vulgate produced by Jerome in the early 400s. The Vulgate was the main Bible of the medieval Western Church until the Reformation. It continues to this day as the primary Latin translation of the Roman Catholic Church. Yet, as we shall see later, it was Protestants who introduced the word “rapture” into the English language from the Latin raeptius.[1] It was Jerome’s Vulgate that translated the original Greek verb harpazo used by Paul, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, in 1 Thessalonians 4:17,


127 posted on 06/20/2017 9:41:58 AM PDT by EliRoom8
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