Then bust out your strong’s and find me rapture in the bible!
Hint it is not there it is an invention or tradition of men most notably Darby and Scofield
The Rapture is as much biblical concept as is the Trinity, a word also not found in the Bible.
Now, if you like we can call it the being 'caught up' (1Thess.4:17) and changing in a 'twinkling of an eye' doctrine (1Cor.15:52).
The term rapture comes from a latin word which means “to be caught up” as mention in Thessalonians. The latin word and doctrine is much older then Darby.
I understand that people have a hard time with the concept of being “caught up” as was Enoch (Genesis 5:24) and Elijah (2 Kings 2:1), but to say that it never happened or will never happen again is not taking Scripture seriously.
I certainly don’t completely understand all of the end times stuff, but when someone says that all of the Revelation stuff happened under Nero, I have to scratch my head.
When was 1/3 of the earth burned up? (Rev. 8:7)
When did 1/3 of the sea become blood and 1/3 of creatures in the sea died? (Rev. 8:8-9)
When did 1/3 of the sun, moon, and stars get deminished? (Rev. 8:12-13)
When did 1/3 of the whole earths people die? (Rev. 8:13-21)
There’s more, but the point is that all of this hasn’t happened yet.
Sincerely
“Then bust out your strong’s and find me rapture in the bible!”
# 1 Thessalonians 4:17
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Bust out your strong’s and find me the trinity. You won’t find that, either. Does it mean it doesn’t exist?