“The Rapture” Defined

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RAPTURE: from the Latin Vulgate translation RAPIO, “to seize or be carried away in one’s spirit.” Greek: HARPAZO, “to be caught up.”

Someday, a day that only God knows, Jesus Christ is coming to take away all those who believe in Him. He is coming to meet all true believers in the air. Without benefit of science, space suits, or interplanetary rockets, there will be those who will be transported into a glorious place more beautiful, more awesome, than we can possibly comprehend. Earth and all its thrills, excitement, and pleasures will be nothing in contrast to this great event.

Hal Lindsey
The Late Great Planet Earth, p. 126.

1Thessalonians 4:15-18
15     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, shall not precede those who have fallen asleep.
16     For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first.
17     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.
18     Therefore comfort one another with these words.

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