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Because:
1) it's a comfort to the believer and
2) it makes sense
1) it's a comfort to the believer and
2) it makes sense
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The word is in Holy Scriptures. Paul uses "caught up" in 1 Thessalonians 4 as I quoted previously.There is no rapture. All passages used to support the rapture actually refer to the second coming of Christ.
"Caught up" is harpazo in the Koine Greek. It is also found in 1 Thessalonians 4:17
The term rapture comes from the Latin Vulgate:
deinde nos qui vivimus qui relinquimur simul rapiemur cum illis in nubibus obviam Domino in aera et sic semper cum Domino erimus
Well as a Catholic you should thank Darby. Before him just about every Protestant church embraced the Reformed version of eschatology which put the Pope as the perennial antichrist and The Vatican as the harlot of Babylon.John Darby (1800 to 1882)
I have always wondered about this. I believe that Revelation is, of course, inspired and True, but do wonder if parts of it have already been fulfilled.Someday, one or two of you are going to finally read Revelation as it was actually written...... as a letter of encouragement to living Christians in some local churches, around 1,900 years ago.... NOT as a crystal ball, fortune-telling futuristic piece of magic.
Well as a Catholic you should thank Darby. Before him just about every Protestant church embraced the Reformed version of eschatology which put the Pope as the perennial antichrist and The Vatican as the harlot of Babylon.
So thanks to the dispensationalists the whole harlot of Babylon deal fell out of vogue.
So small favors to Darby.
It may have been Luther first.Interesting. Calvin started the whole thing?
While the Rapture has been spoken about by other Protestants, it wasn't until John Darby (1800 to 1882) began spreading Dispensationalism and stories of a Pre-Tribulation rapture that "the Rapture" began to become popular. Does God need to wait 1800 years to reveal a new doctrine?
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I think the rapture is such a focal point for many because no one in their right mind would want to go through the things predicted to take place in Revelation.While the Rapture has been spoken about by other Protestants, it wasn't until John Darby (1800 to 1882) began spreading Dispensationalism and stories of a Pre-Tribulation rapture that "the Rapture" began to become popular. Does God need to wait 1800 years to reveal a new doctrine?
Please Discuss
1 Thessalonians 4:17-18 (KJV)I think the rapture is such a focal point for many because no one in their right mind would want to go through the things predicted to take place in Revelation.
"20But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: 21For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be."
Even Jesus is like, you do not want to be here for this.
1 Thessalonians 4:17-18 (KJV)
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.
18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
I don't think you're being a downer. The Bible tells us that the words of 1 Thess 4 should be comfort to us believers whatever you think that it means which is what I was trying to point out. I (as wel as many others) happen to think that it points to a rapture.I'm not trying to be a downer. I'm just saying that this is probably why pre-trib rapture people focus on it so much. But i appreciate what you are saying.
While the Rapture has been spoken about by other Protestants, it wasn't until John Darby (1800 to 1882) began spreading Dispensationalism and stories of a Pre-Tribulation rapture that "the Rapture" began to become popular. Does God need to wait 1800 years to reveal a new doctrine?
Please Discuss
It's probably so popular because it's something that could happen at anytime.
Does God need to wait 1800 years to reveal a new doctrine?
It’s so popular because it’s doctrine means those in Christ won’t suffer tribulation. However I can’t see anywhere in scripture where this is true.While the Rapture has been spoken about by other Protestants, it wasn't until John Darby (1800 to 1882) began spreading Dispensationalism and stories of a Pre-Tribulation rapture that "the Rapture" began to become popular. Does God need to wait 1800 years to reveal a new doctrine?
Please Discuss
AgreedThere is no rapture. All passages used to support the rapture actually refer to the second coming of Christ.
While the Rapture has been spoken about by other Protestants, it wasn't until John Darby (1800 to 1882) began spreading Dispensationalism and stories of a Pre-Tribulation rapture that "the Rapture" began to become popular. Does God need to wait 1800 years to reveal a new doctrine?
Please Discuss
While the Rapture has been spoken about by other Protestants, it wasn't until John Darby (1800 to 1882) began spreading Dispensationalism and stories of a Pre-Tribulation rapture that "the Rapture" began to become popular. Does God need to wait 1800 years to reveal a new doctrine?
Please Discuss
That could be a personal motivation. However, the classic dispensational position is not 'run away, run away brave Sir Robin!" but a matter of God's Wrath being poured out in the Tribulation period. The dispensational position (and I think it is also Biblically plausible) is that Christ rescues His Bride, the Church, from the Wrath poured out by God, because we are not the focus of the poured out Wrath but the wicked.I think the rapture is such a focal point for many because no one in their right mind would want to go through the things predicted to take place in Revelation.
"20But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: 21For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be."
Even Jesus is like, you do not want to be here for this.