Bible Question: Where is rapture mentioned in the bible? I don't see it anywhere in my bible. |
Bible Answer: Uni soldier: You won't find the word "rapture" in the Bible. The description of the church being taken up to meet the Lord in the air, generally understood to be the rapture, is described in 1 Thess. 4:16,17. The term "caught up" in v. 17 is a rendering of the Greek word "harpazo" meaning "to seize." The Latin Vulgate rendered this verb by its Latin name, rapti; hence the English word, rapture. The implication of the verb is an immediate translation (alteration, change) of believers, including the change of their bodies to a glorified state. Incidentally, among other important theological doctrines or concepts whose exact words are not found in Scripture [though the teachings of them are] include the words "Trinity" and "substitutionary" (death of Christ). --Hank |