Is the Rapture biblical?

[friend of]

What Is the Rapture and Is it Biblical?

 

[Sabertooth]

What Is the Rapture and Is it Biblical?

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"The Rapture" is the name of the phenomenon prophesied in 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17.

"For this we say to you by the word of the Lord,
that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord
will by no means precede those who are asleep.

For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven

• with a shout,
• with the voice of an archangel, and
• with the trumpet of God.

And the dead in Christ will rise first.
Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.

And thus we shall always be with the Lord."

That will happen in some fashion, but I am not entirely convinced of the presumed, subsequent scenario.

 

[friend of]

If its behind a paywall it didn't show up for me I could read the whole thing. Oh well

 

[charsan]

What Is the Rapture and Is it Biblical?

I do not believe it is Biblical, I believe the idea of a "Rapture" comes from faulty interpretation.

 

[friend of]

Did you read the link @charsan ?

 

[Sabertooth]

If its behind a paywall it didn't show up for me I could read the whole thing. Oh well

It is an "adblocker" paywall.

 

[timothyu]

Then we who are alive and remain

'and remain' being the key words

 

[charsan]

Did you read the link @charsan ?

I tried but couldn't had the same problem that @Sabertooth has

 

[friend of]

and remain' being the key words

How so?

 

[timothyu]

How so?

Remain after what?

 

[friend of]

Remain after what?

After the rapture of course

 

[timothyu]

After the rapture of course

Raptured after the rapture?

 

[friend of]

It's still considered the same rapture. It just so happens that the dead are raised first

 

[timothyu]

It's still considered the same rapture. It just so happens that the dead are raised first

Yes but those who are alive and remain before said lifting up went through what beforehand? Martyrdom? Tribulation? Many mistakenly believe they get to avoid the misery.

 

[friend of]

Yes but those who are alive and remain before said lifting up went through what beforehand? Martyrdom? Tribulation? Many mistakenly believe they get to avoid the misery.

Which verses are you thinking of specifically?

 

[timothyu]

Which verses are you thinking of specifically?

The ones you quoted above. Jesus does not come during the tribulation but to end it.

 

[friend of]

So your view is posttrib rapture then?

Well I'm pretrib. Luke 21:36 for instance, says:

Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man."

 

[timothyu]

Well I'm pretrib.

When does Jesus come?

 

[friend of]

When does Jesus come?

Heaven. But being gathered and "caught up" does not necessarily mean Jesus descends to earth at that time. That's what postrib seems to get wrong about pretrib camp.

 

[yeshuaslavejeff]

I do not believe it is Biblical, I believe the idea of a "Rapture" comes from faulty interpretation.

This seems to be true no matter what so-called 'rapture' / school/ is being believed in and posted about. i.e. every which way false outnumbers the truth.