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   Rap·ture

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   noun

   • 1. a feeling of intense pleasure or joy: "Leonora listened with rapture"
   • ▪ expressions of intense pleasure or enthusiasm about something: "the tabloids went into raptures about her"
   • 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"

   Word Origin late 16th century (in the sense ‘seizing and carrying off’): from obsolete French, or from medieval Latin raptura ‘seizing’, partly influenced by rapt.

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   What does Rapture mean?

   • Often raptures. an utterance or expression of ecstatic delight. the carrying of a person to another place or sphere of existence. the Rapture,Theology. the experience, anticipated by some fundamentalist Christians, of meeting Christ midway in the air upon his return to earth. Archaic. the act of carrying off.

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   Who believed in the Rapture?

   • The concept of the rapture, in connection with premillennialism, was expressed by the 17th-century American Puritans Increase and Cotton Mather. They held to the idea that believers would be caught up in the air, followed by judgments on earth, and then the millennium.

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   Where does Rapture come from?

   • Rapture is derived from Middle French rapture, via the Medieval Latin raptura ("seizure, kidnapping"), which derives from the Latin raptus ("a carrying off"). The Koine Greek of 1 Thessalonians 4:17 uses the verb form ἁρπαγησόμεθα ( harpagēsometha ), which means "we shall be caught up" or "we shall be taken away".

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   What does the Bible say about the Rapture?

   • Matthew 24:29–31 – " Immediately after the Tribulation of those days...they shall gather together his elect... " – is cited as a foundational scripture for this view. Post-tribulationists perceive the rapture as occurring simultaneously with the second coming of Christ.

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   Learn the various meanings and uses of the word rapture, from ecstasy or passion to a Christian end-time event. See synonyms, examples, etymology, and related phrases of rapture.

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   noun. ecstatic joy or delight; joyful ecstasy. Synonyms: exaltation, transport, beatitude, bliss. Antonyms: misery. Often raptures. an utterance or expression of ecstatic delight. the carrying of a person to another place or sphere of existence.

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   The idea of a rapture as it is currently defined is not found in historic Christianity, and is a relatively recent doctrine originating from the 1830s. The term is used frequently among fundamentalist theologians in the United States. Rapture has also been used for a mystical union with God or for eternal life in Heaven.

6. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › englishRAPTURE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

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   Rapture means extreme pleasure and happiness or excitement. Learn how to use this word in different contexts, such as music, poetry, politics, and religion, with examples and translations.

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   Rapture means extreme pleasure and happiness or excitement. Learn how to use this word in different contexts, such as music, religion, or love, with examples from various sources.

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   a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion. “"listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture "- Charles Dickens”. synonyms: ecstasy, exaltation, raptus, transport. see more. see less. type of: emotional state, spirit. the state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection) noun.

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    4 days ago · The Rapture, in Christianity, the eschatological (concerned with the last things and Endtime) belief that both living and dead believers will ascend into heaven to meet Jesus Christ at the Second Coming. The belief emerged from the anticipation that Jesus would return to redeem all of his followers.