Greetings Saints , a word of caution to the zealous for truth , dear BABerean2 , do you completely discount , dismissing out of hand the words ;
3 Beloved, all diligence using to write to you concerning the common salvation, I had necessity to write to you, exhorting to agonize for the faith once delivered to the saints,
By THE FIRST ASSEMBLE of our MASTER ?
( All twelve concurred )
14 and Peter having stood up with the eleven, lifted up his voice and declared to them, `Men, Jews! and all those dwelling in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and harken to my sayings,
Fulfilling Matthew 24:29,30,31 ! You do believe Acts is True ?
Would you please specify which translation of Holy Scripture & the verse you find the word " rapture " ?
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First known " USE " ;
Rapture - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary
" Origin of
RAPTURE
Latin
raptusFirst Known Use: 1594
This brings up an interesting point. When a human dies, time in their reality may be different from ours?
They close their EYES of flesh & a nanosecond later , OPEN their SPIRITUAL EYES AT the " READING " of their lives in the flesh !
" and every one who is living and believing in me shall not die -- to the age;
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so also the Christ, once having been offered to bear the sins of many, a second time, apart from a sin-offering, shall appear, to those waiting for him -- to salvation!
https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Hebrews 9:28
https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/John 11:26
Based on John chapter 5 there will be one simultaneous resurrection of the just and unjust.
In the following verses we see a description very similar to the famous rapture passage of 1st Thess. chapter 4. Those of the Disp. persuasion say this refers to the 2nd Coming and not the rapture, however both contain Christ coming in the clouds with a trumpet and angels.
Dear Brother , I fear not ONE WORD in early MSS Holy Writ , can you boast the same ?
John 4:23
but, there cometh an hour,
and it now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father
in spirit and truth, for the Father also doth seek such to worship him;
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