Tag: bible prophecy

Critics have said, “The rapture is fake”. or “There is no rapture in the Bible”!

When you refer them to the rapture passages (listed below), they then respond, “I don’t see the word “rapture”!

The word “rapture” is not in the King James Bible because it’s a Latin word found in the Latin translation of 1 Thess. 4:17 “caught up”.

NT PASSAGES DEALING WITH THE RAPTURE:

In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. (John 14:2-3)

Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. (1 Corinthians 15:51-52)

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up (harpazo, Greek) together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17)

Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. (2 Thessalonians 2:1-2)

1. 1 Corinthians 15:51, tells us that it is a mystery (family [of God] secret). Something revealed only to the church not the public.

1. Jesus spoke of it in John 14 in a private briefing (upper room discourse) only to the 11 Apostles after kicking out Judas!

1. 2 Thessalonians 2 mentions it in the context of false teachers who were teaching that they were already in the “tribulation” or the time of Jacob’s trouble.

1. 1 Thessalonians 4 contains the expression from which the word rapture comes from: (caught up/harpazo).

OTHER PASSAGES WHERE HARPAZO IS USED:

Mt 11:12 the violent take <harpazo> it by force <harpazo>.

 Mt 13:19 and catcheth away <harpazo> that which was sown

 Joh 6:15 ¶ take <harpazo> him by force <harpazo>,

 Joh 10:12 the wolf catcheth <harpazo> them

 Joh 10:28 neither shall <harpazo> any man pluck <harpazo> them out of my hand.

 Joh 10:29 no man is able to pluck <harpazo> them out of my Father’s hand.

 Ac 8:39 the Spirit of the Lord caught away <harpazo> Philip…

 Ac 23:10 and to take <harpazo> him by force <harpazo> from among them

 2Co 12:2 such an one caught up <harpazo> to the third heaven…

 2Co 12:4 How that he was caught up <harpazo> into paradise…

 Jude 1:23 pulling <harpazo> them out of the fire…

 Re 12:5 And she brought forth a man child, who …was caught up <harpazo> unto God…