[topcat54]

No, I don’t buy into the comic book version, but the term and concept is taken from the Bible.

You mean with people disappearing and leaving behind a rumpled pile of clothing, and folks looking around wondering what happened to Cousin Agnes? And a bunch of pagan folks going on to live their lives like in the Left Behind pulp fiction series?

When most folks today here the word "rapture" they have been conditioned to think of the pre-tribulational "secret rapture" invented by JN Darby and CI Scofield, and popularized by John Walvoord, Chuck Smith, and Hal Lindsey and a host of others.

True comic book stuff.

[mlocher]

When most folks today here the word "rapture" they have been conditioned to think of the pre-tribulational "secret rapture" invented by JN Darby and CI Scofield, and popularized by John Walvoord, Chuck Smith, and Hal Lindsey and a host of others.

Thanks. It was Darby whose name I was struggling to remember. I think he lived in England in the 1800s when he interpreted certain Bible passages to define the rapture.