In religion,what is "The Rapture"?
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The word "Rapture" is not found in the bible at all. It is a doctrine introduced into most "christian" churches in the late 1800's in an effort to corrupt Christianity into a "do nothing but wait people" while in reality they should be the most excited, active & holey people on earth right now. As you see,  some preacher put down a whole bunch of irrilivant bible verses down, having no knowledge of their meaning. This is common, because he'll loose his job if he doesn't preach what he is told by his church headquarters. Most preachers therefore are not free to be led of Christ as  true Christians should be.
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When the Jews finally convert to Christianity, the rapture is supposed to happen.
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The word "Rapture" is not found in the Bible, however, I believe the passage that you are referring to is what most people refer to as the "Rapture" in \n\n1st Thessalonians 4:16-18\n     \nFor the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage each other with these words\n\nThe word "rapture" means "to be transported from place to place as to heaven" according to the dictionary.  \n\nThe word "rapture" is probably just a word that wasn't in the vocabulary of the Aramaic Language/Greek Language of the Bible, so therefore it wasn't translated\ninto English.  Some languages don't have a "1 word translation" for something.  In English we have the word, in Greek it just may be "caught up in the clouds"...\n\nHope this helps
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Rapture- n the state of being carried away with love, joy, etc; intense delight, ecstasy.- rapturous adj.- rapturously adv.\nWell I'm 34 and my husband will be home in 2 hours that will bring me to a state of rapture. The man works 7 days a week and some of those days he works 14 hours. I am always carried away with love and joy to see him. And intense delight and ECSTASY is what he brings with him.\nI know you mean t the whole Jesus thing but I don't believe in that so I had to go with the rapture I do believe in.\nLove & Light\nSharon\nOne Planet = One People
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Jesus said that only the Father knows. The Bible tells us that the saints are calling out to God asking when they will be let into the throne room of Heaven.\n\nNobody knows. Nobody should know. Just be ready!\n\nThe signs are already happening. I  don't know that I believe in the rapture, but I hope that there will be, becuase I don't want to be here for the end. It will be terrible!
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From how I understand, the asker is asking if the End Times (referred to as "it") is here because "Islam is against Israel" (referred to as "this"). The asker also points out "rev bible" which I would assume means the Book of Revelation in the Bible.\n\nI don't know. God knows.
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It is an updated version of the same "Left Behind" theology espoused by Hal Lyndsay and other dispensational premillennialists. \n\nIn his book _the Late Great Planet Earth_, Lyndsay told us that the Lord Jesus would return by 1988 because the generation that saw Israel become a nation again would witness His coming in the clouds!\n\nWell here it is, eighteen years later. It would appear that Jesus is eighteen years late in coming. Lots of other speculative "prophecies" by Lyndsay, Van Impe and others have failed to come to pass as predicted as well. \n\nHagee's book is an attempt (one of many, by the way) to excuse or explain away these failed predictions of Bible prophecy "experts."\n\nI wonder how many people have LEFT THE FAITH because of these stupid predictions that have failed to come true!\n\nActually the "left behind" theology is little more than 100 years old! Invented by "revivalists" who hoped to wake a sleepy church out of her doldrums, this new eschatology has ended up doing far more damage than good. Before Darby and Schofield made Dispensational theology famous (along with the absurd "left behind" fiction which followed quickly upon it), the Church taught no such thing as a secret "rapture" followed by years of tribulation under a worldwide dictator and all that rubbish.
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First will come the rapture which is a number of people will suddendly just dispear all around the world.  This will heardald the 7 years of tribulation.  At the end of Tribulation comes Armegeddon where Jesus will come and rule for 1000 years.  After this Satan will be release for a time for one last time to try and deceive the nation.  After this will come Judgement day and then God will remake earth into the new heaven and dwell here for ever.
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Every religion has an armageddon story. Every religion promises some sort of ascension... but the details of the story differs... every religion's mystical prophecies is humbug to somebody
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born again christians believe in rapture.that they will be taken up during the great tribulation. Rapture is not a bible teachings.
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I've seen a lot of Christians take verses out of the Bible and insist that they are "prophecy"... but they're one of the following.\n\n1. Prediction of something that's either very likely or inevitable.\n2. Prediction of something that happens later in the same book.\n3. Completely wrong, out of context, or contradictory to reality.\n4. Prediction of something that happens in another book, but in the context of the author having literary access to the prophecy referenced. \n\nNone of these things qualify as "prophecy". Prophecy is a unique prediction, the event happening on its own without "help" from those who know the prophecy beforehand.
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There's apparently a big debate about this. If you're part of an older church, then yeah, God would've given the smackdown before rapture. Newer churches take the view of the rapture occurring before the mayhem begins.
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What About "the Rapture"?\nhttp://www.wcg.org/lit/prophecy/rapture.htm\n\nThe rapture doctrine seems to have originated with a man named John Nelson Darby in about 1830. He divided the time of the second coming into two stages. Darby said Christ would come for his saints (the "rapture") before the tribulation and he would come with his saints after it, which he thought was Jesus’ true coming in glory or second coming. \n\nTheir will be a rapture BUT NOT the one taught by the left behind books. \n\nThe Coming of the Lord\nhttp://www.wcg.org/lit/prophecy/return/return1.htm
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God will rapture only those who are saved (they are the ones Sealed with the Holy Spirit). Once the Tribulation begins all who have heard the gospel will be decieved and when the beast comes and requires a mark (a seal) they will belong to him and never be able to be saved from God's Wrath and Punishment of eternity in the Lake of Fire. \n\nThose who are born again will be raptured before the tribulation begins. Think about the shadows of historical stories in scripture: Noah was saved from the Judgment of the Flood. \n\nCheck out Premillinial books and see that they are accurate with what scripture teaches. \n\nThe Judgments on the earth during the tribulation (see Revelation) will happen during all 7 years of tribulation. If we are saved and forgiven from our sins (born again in Christ) he would not leave us here to be among those judged. The first 3 years are false peace and there are things going on that are coming down from a Just God bringing Wrath. \n\nAmazing how our church has been studying Revelation for 18 weeks now and we covered that stuff a few weeks ago. We are on the 7th and final trumpet before Christ's return with the Redeemed of the Ages and the Angels to reign in the Millenial Kingdom.\n\nHope my info helps you.
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Darby created the idea of the rapture but a con artists named Scofield that was in and out of prison for scamming people out of money promoted it and made it popular. There is no pre-trib rapture, it is just one of many of the churches lies. Read Rev. 20:1-5. It states seeing the beheaded for not taking the mark of the beast and the says that this is the first Resurrection. The rapture belief states that the dead rise. if the beheaded are part of the first Resurrection then it is impossible to have a rapture before that point. Also when Christ returns all shall see Him. Due to this ignorant false belief in a pre trib rapture I believe that most church goers will take the mark of the beast thinking that it can't be the mark since the rapture hadn't happened yet. I feel that this is part of the great lie that God sent to deceive everyone but the elect. Which in fact will show that most church goers were never really Christians because the elect won't be deceived by this lie.
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The belief that faithful Christians will be bodily caught up from the earth,suddenly taken out of the world,to be united with the Lord "in the air". The word "rapture" is understood by some persons,but not by all,to be the meaning of 1 Thessalonians 4:17. The word "rapture" does not occur in the inspired Scriptures.
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Before I say this let me tell you that I am a devout Christian.  The rapture is a creation of man and does not exist.  It evolved from interpretation of the Revelation.  Not gonna happen.  Ever.