what is the rapture and where can I find it in the Bible?

The rapture is not referred to as such in the Bible. It is referred to as the second coming of Christ, or the coming in glory, or the coming of the kingdom of heaven.

The Rapture is the end of Satan, and the return of Christ. The Rapture can be found in the book of Revelation.

"Rapture" is derived from the Latin verb: 'rapere'. This is used in 1 Thess. 4:17. The word itself means: "The transporting of a person from one place to another".

So the word "rapture" is never used. The word itself is taken from the latin word that describes the event and is given a theological meaning. Just like atheists took the word "evolution" (which used to mean simply 'change') and change its meaning to "the gradual changed from one species to another."

There are other texts that make reference to the rapture.

John 14:1-3

"Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. 2 In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.

Matt 24:31

1 Thessalonians 4:17 (King James Version)

17Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

Rapture is when the faithful are cought up in the air to meet Jesus and go live with God forever.

There is some controversy about what ACTUALLY happens and the word "rapture" is not used only the description of what we call rapture.

Some say that we won't go anywhere, but will be perfected here and rule over the unbelievers or that the unbelievers will go to hell and we will be left on a perfect earth to live in peace and happiness with God, the way He originally intended it to be with Adam and Eve.

I have my own theories , but I have answered your question.

Rapture is written 'Rapturo' in a Latin Bible. It is written in the KJV bible as being 'caught up'. So isn't referring to the 2nd coming of Christ (or return of Christ). But when those ready for Him is 'caught up' to be with Him. The retutrn of Christ is when Jesus comes back to the earth to Reign for the Millennium.

Even though the Rapture is Jesus returning for His Bride. He isn't coming back to earth at this time. But we are caught up to be with Him.

We will be 'caught up' to be with the Lord forever. Those dead in Christ (their spirit/soul is in heaven, but bodies had died) will 'raise up' first. Then those alive on earth will 'raise up' to be with the Lord forever. A metomorpho will happen where our soul & spirit put on a new everlasting body like Jesus raised from the dead in.

This is all part of the 1st Resurrection. Jesus returning is when the 1st Resurrection is complete. The 1st Resurrection started when Jesus raised from the dead & is complete when we (who believe in Him) will raise up like Him.

When Jesus returns. His Saints are returning with Him. Countless from all nations, who have been raised up like Him.

In Greek it is harpozo (snatched up).In 1Th.4:17.

Greek compared with KJV:

http://www.scripture4all.org/OnlineInterlinear/NTp...

the rapture may be confused with the resurrection, there might not be a pre-trib rapture, but there definitely is a REsurrection

Actually, the word “rapture” is not found in the Bible. The belief is based on 1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17, where the related words “caught away” are found. There we read:

“The Lord himself will descend from heaven with a commanding call, with an archangel’s voice and with God’s trumpet, and those who are dead in union with Christ will rise first. Afterward we the living who are surviving will, together with them, be caught away in clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and thus we shall always be with the Lord.”

The Bible does not indicate that there will be a literal, bodily return of Christ to earth. Rather, it shows that he returns in the sense of turning his attention to the earth and to accomplish certain definite purposes respecting mankind.

Christ’s descending, as mentioned at 1 Thessalonians 4:16, is in the same sense as the Scriptures speak of God’s descending to earth. For instance, the Bible says of God: “He proceeded to bend the heavens down and to descend; and thick gloom was beneath his feet.” (2 Samuel 22:10) “Look! Jehovah is going forth from his place, and he will certainly come down and tread upon earth’s high places.” (Micah 1:3) What is meant by these words? Not that God will leave his place in heaven, but that he will turn his attention to affairs on earth.

In the same way, when Christ turns his attention to the earth he resurrects those sleeping in death who will join him in heavenly rule. (1 Thessalonians 4:14, 15; Revelation 20:6) They, like Jesus, are invisibly raised to join him in the spirit realm. Thus “those who are dead in union with Christ will rise first.” Then those anointed Christians still living on earth will, as they complete their earthly course, “be caught away in clouds [resurrected as invisible spirit sons of God] to meet the [invisible] Lord in the air.” Thus, “afterward,” as mentioned in 1 Thessalonians 4:17, means that such faithful ones who then die will also receive a resurrection in the spirit.—1 Corinthians 15:51-53.

But much more is accomplished at Christ’s return. Installed as King in God’s heavenly kingdom, he first ousts Satan from heaven and confines him to the vicinity of the earth. From his heavenly throne Jesus turns his attention to the earth for inspection and judgment. Nations are “gathered before him,” and the people are separated as “sheep” from “goats.”—Matthew 25:31-33; Revelation 12:7-12.

That separation made by Jesus is based on the attitude individuals have toward Christ’s “brothers,” those anointed Christians, the “living who are surviving” at the time of his return. Jesus’ “brothers” have been given the work of preaching the “good news of the kingdom” and ‘making disciples of people of all the nations.’ (Matthew 25:34-45; 24:14; 28:19, 20) Those separated as “sheep,” in Jesus’ illustration of ‘the sheep and the goats,’ join with Christ’s “brothers” in proclaiming God’s kingdom. But they do not entertain any hope of any kind of rapture, or of a heavenly resurrection to “be with the Lord.” Rather, they have the Scriptural hope of going through the “great tribulation” and of living forever in paradise conditions on earth. In connection with this earthly realm of the kingdom, the King Jesus Christ will extend to them the invitation: “Come, you who have been blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the founding of the world.”—Matthew 25:34, 46; Revelation 7:9, 10, 14.

if you twist scripture you will find it, if you consider the subject and verb of what you are reading(just like when you read anything else) you will find that it isnt in there. all you haters listen up..... first thesalonians is referring to what happens when you die in christ. read the subject!!!

i dont know where it is in the bible, but its when jesus comes and takes all the Christians and leaves us with the earth to ourselves