Who thinks the RAPTURE has already happened?

But all the stupid annoying christians are still here! The rapture was my one hope for a world without them!

There is an absolute reason to believe that it hasn't happened already. many ppl will disappear in the twinkling of an eye (while their driving, standing in line at the store, walking down the street, eating a sandwich etc). The rapture won't happen without everyone knowing. if you turn on the news one day (or night) and the reporters & newscasters are saying that people everywhere are just disappearing instantaneously & simultaneously, then maybe you should flip over to revelations in your bible read it through & consider it your second chance, cuz the next one will be coming in 7 years. hope you'll be ready then.

Oh believe me, it has not. You and the whole planet will know when it happens. I hope your ready. IF you live through the rapture, (millions of people will die that day because of falling planes, unmanned vehicles like cars, subways, ambulances, ships, suddenly missing surgeons, etc. and believe me those that die because Christians were raptured, will not be going to heaven) you may have a chance at redemption, but it will be so difficult to attain salvation because of the anti-christ. Your best bet is to lose the smugness because it won' t help you, and give your heart to Christ. God Bless.

The word Rapture is not even in the bible the whole idea is foolish why would God not tell us if something like that is going to happen the bible makes it vary clear just what is going to happen when Christ returns and even speaks of those who went through the tabulation who will be saved when he returns why do we believe in that lie?

No, there are more things to happen yet.

But we have an awesome promise awaiting those who are saved. He will ride into the streets on a white horse with fire in His eyes.

We will be saved to Heaven.

It happened about two years ago when I picked up this heavy box of books. I should have known better but I guess I'm not as young and strong as I used to be.

If the rapture HAS already happened, ... we're ALL in for a LOT of trouble. ... A WHOLE LOT of trouble.

read Revelations. the rapture has definately not happened yet.

yes there is

jesus gave signs for his followers to watch for and said watch and be ready

No, Rose. Did you know this...

That Is Is Not Found in the Bible?

Is It Found in the Bible?

Does the Bible teach that there will be a rapture of all true Christians to heaven? Will they be taken away leaving the rest of mankind behind to face calamity?

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.”

Believers in the rapture give the following literal interpretation to this passage: Christ will again come to the earth. The dead “saints” will be resurrected and the living “saints” will be caught away, or raptured. Given new immortal bodies, they will rise and join Christ in the air, and he will take them to heaven.

This belief, then, is tied in with the return of Jesus Christ. But what does the Bible show to be the purpose of Christ’s return?

Manner and Purpose of Christ’s Return

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)

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The answer is NO AND NO. Armageddon is not here yet, and thus Jesus has not returned yet to destroy all wicked humans in the earth while locking Satan and his demons away for the 1,000 year reign in an abyss "death-like" state.