Is the word, "rapture" in the Bible?
Sure...It's in the same chapter where you find the word Trinity
Rapture takes twoOTTAWA — The Rapture occurred March 31, 2005, at 9:43 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time and took both people on the planet whose theology was exactly correct.
Dan Wilson of Ottawa, Canada, was snatched away while sleeping.
"He spent years refining his eschatological scheme," says his wife. "Just last week he told me he had it all right, but I still disagreed with him on a minor point. I regret that now."
Rejna Thanawalla of New Delhi, India, also experienced the Rapture, say friends.
"She knew exactly what the books of Revelation and Daniel meant," they say. "Sadly, none of us listened to her."
In a surprise, Tim LaHaye says he was "slightly wrong on the subject of the Beast," and was left behind. Other prophecy experts say they, too, botched minor points in their end times charts.
"Looks like we'll have to stay and wait this out," said one disappointed pastor.
In the Vulgate New Testament, it appears in at least four places: 2 Cor 12:2, 2 Cor 12:4, 1 Thes 4:17, and Rev 12:5.
They are as follows, with the Douay-Rheims translation:
2 Cor 12:2Scio hominem in Christo ante annos quattuordecim, sive in corpore nescio sive extra corpus nescio, Deus scit raptum ejusmodi usque ad tertium cælum.
I know a man in Christ above fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I know not, or out of the body, I know not; God knoweth), such a one caught up to the third heaven.
2 Cor 12:4
Quoniam raptus est in paradisum, et audivit arcana verba quæ non licet homini loqui.
That he was caught up into paradise, and heard secret words, which it is not granted to man to utter.
1 Thes 4:17
Deinde nos qui vivimus, qui relinquimur, simul rapiemur cum illis in nubibus obviam Domino in æra, et sic semper cum Domino erimus.
Then we who are alive, who are left, shall be taken up together with them in the clouds to meet Christ, into the air, and so shall we be always with the Lord.
Rev 12:5
Et peperit filium masculum, qui recturus erit omnes gentes in virga ferrea, et raptus est filius ejus ad Deum et ad thronum ejus.
And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with an iron rod: and her son was taken up to God, and to his throne.
1 Thes 4:17 is the passage usually cited for evidence of the "rapture" by the Darbyists who produce this sort of silliness.