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- DictionaryRap·ture/ˈrap(t)SHər/
noun
- 1. a feeling of intense pleasure or joy: "Leonora listened with rapture"
- 2. (according to some millenarian teaching) the transporting of believers to heaven at the Second Coming of Christ: North American "thousands of Christians gathered outside Rochester and other cities, awaiting the Rapture"
verb
- 1. (according to some millenarian teaching) transport (a believer) from earth to heaven at the Second Coming of Christ: North American "people will be raptured out of automobiles as they are driving along"
May 8, 2024 · One of the pivotal end time prophecies of Matthew 24:15 describes a place of desolation. This place, Tsarfati says, is in Jerusalem. “Where is the abomination of desolation going to be? In the temple court. Of what city? Salt Lake City?
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4 days ago · The rapture is necessary because believers are not appointed to God’s wrath. It is one of our gifts from God for being obedient. I Thessalonians 1:10 says, “Jesus, who rescues us from the wrath to come.” Romans 5:9: “Much more then, having now been justified by his blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through him.”
May 20, 2024 · The rapture describes the snatching away of the church (Christians). There is no judgment, no punishment, and it will be a glorious day for all believers. At the rapture, the dead will rise with new bodies and new bodies will be given to living Christians as well.
1 day ago · The actual word 'rapture' is not in the bible, rather 'caught up together'. We who are alive and remain, meaning there is some real rough rides ahead, our physical bodies will leave the earth and we will be changed in the twinkling of an eye (a split second), our bodies will be given an immortal body at this same time.
4 days ago · Will There be a Rapture? Sebastian R. Fama | 05/25/2024. Photo by Shane Rounce on Unsplash. "The Rapture" is a term that is used to describe the belief that at some point in time Jesus will come, and all true believers will literally rise, meet Him in the air and be whisked away to heaven.
May 15, 2024 · 1 Corinthians 15:51-52. “Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.” Paul introduces the concept of the rapture as a mystery.
6 days ago · e. Eschatology ( / ˌɛskəˈtɒlədʒi / ⓘ; from Ancient Greek ἔσχατος (éskhatos) 'last', and -logy) concerns expectations of the end of the present age, human history, or the world itself. [1] The end of the world or end times [2] is predicted by several world religions (both Abrahamic and non-Abrahamic), which teach that negative ...
