Q: What is this Rapture stuff I keep hearing about everywhere?
A: The Rapture referrers to an event where the true followers of Jesus who are still alive when he returns will be caught up in the heavens and not die.
Descriptions of this event are found in the Bible;
1 Corinthians 15:51-52 Listen,I will tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep,but we will all be changed – 52 in a moment, in the blinkingof an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
1 Thessalonians 4:14-17 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also we believe thatGod will bring with him those who have fallen asleep as Christians.15 For we tell you this by the word of the Lord,that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will surely not go ahead of those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a shout of command, with the voice of the archangel,and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive, who are left,will be suddenly caught uptogetherwith them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.
Q: Hey, where’s the word Rapture? I don’t see it.
A: The word Rapture is not anywhere in the Bible. Someone gave this described event that name a long time ago. Rapture means to be “caught up”. This is all that we really know.
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