On a documentary today I learned of a teaching called The Rapture" evidently at some?

The word “rapture” does not occur in the Bible. The concept of the rapture, though, is clearly taught in Scripture. The rapture of the church is the event in which God removes all believers from the earth in order to make way for His righteous judgment to be poured out on the earth during the tribulation period. The rapture is described primarily in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 and 1 Corinthians 15:50-54. God will resurrect all believers who have died, give them glorified bodies, and take them from the earth, along with those believers who are still alive and who will at that time also be given glorified bodies. “For the Lord Himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever” (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17).

The rapture will be instantaneous in nature, and we will receive glorified bodies at that time. “Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed” (1 Corinthians 15:51-52). The rapture is the glorious event we should all be longing for. We will finally be free from sin. We will be in God's presence forever. There is far too much debate over the meaning and scope of the rapture. This is not God’s intent. Rather, in regard to the rapture, God wants us to “encourage each other with these words” (1 Thessalonians 4:18).

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Lack of understanding scripture is why we have so many false beliefs, in Matt 24 we see some explain the rapture when it is not talking about being taken to heaven! Why do we need to “keep on the watch” and “keep ready”? Jesus explained: “Two men will be in the field: one will be taken along and the other be abandoned; two women will be grinding at the hand mill: one will be taken along and the other be abandoned.” (Matthew 24:40, 41) Those who prove themselves ready will be “taken along,” or saved, when the ungodly world is destroyed. Others will be “abandoned” to destruction because they have been selfishly pursuing their own way of life. These may well include individuals who were once enlightened but who did not keep on the watch.

1 Thess 4:15-17 says: For this is what we tell YOU by Jehovah’s word, that we the living who survive to the presence of the Lord shall in no way precede those who have fallen asleep [in death]; 16 because 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. 17 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.

Christendom's clergy has taught this to mean the rapture when it's the furthest thing. Rev 7:4 says 144,000 are sealed, this is known as the Little Flock, Rev 7:9:14 speaks of a great crowd, some Bibles say great multitude, the 7th chapter of Rev speaks of two different groups, one has a number(144,000) and the other a number that can't be counted(7:9-After these things I saw, and, look! a great crowd, which no man was able to number, out of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes; and there were palm branches in their hands)

The false clergy has mudded the water of truth and put everyone into one group that either goes to heaven or hell, they ignore the scripture and promote lies that tickle the ears of their listeners(2 Tim 4:3-4).

Hundreds of thousands are learning what the Bible really teaches, What Does the Bible Really Teach? is a free down load at jw.org, those that are looking for the truth take advantage of this free service, the goats don't, their minds have been blinded by Satan!

(2 Corinthians 4:3-4) If, now, the good news we declare is in fact veiled, it is veiled among those who are perishing, 4 among whom the god of this system of things has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, that the illumination of the glorious good news about the Christ, who is the image of God, might not shine through.

Really how can knowledge hurt especially when you have a Bible you can refer too?

First please note the rapture is not a Bible teaching. But what is the teaching?

Essentially it is the belief that Christians will be snatched away, suddenly taken out of the world, to be united with Christ “in the air.” As Tim LaHaye wrote in his book The Beginning of the End: “We will immediately leave this earth. No matter what we are doing we will suddenly be taken out of the world.”

He continued: “The Rapture of the Church will be an event of such startling proportions that the entire world will be conscious of our leaving. Some have suggested that there will be airplane, bus and train wrecks throughout the world when Christian operators are suddenly taken out of the world. Who can imagine the chaos on the freeways when automobile drivers are snatched out of their cars!”

Indeed, some drivers have put bumper stickers on their cars reading: “In Case Of Rapture This Car Will Be Driverless.”

But there are differing opinions about how and when the rapture will take place. Some believe it to be a secret rapture, with those taken away simply disappearing. Others think that Christ will appear visibly and raise the “saints” in visible bodies as the world looks on. Some believe that the rapture will take place after the signs and the “great tribulation” mentioned in the Bible at Matthew chapter 24.

The most popular idea, though, is that there are two separate comings of Christ (or two stages of his coming): First, to the air to collect believers to him before the start of a seven-year tribulation; and second, to the earth to establish his kingdom and begin his millennial rule at the end of that tribulation.

However, to the thinking person, the idea of the rapture is try and avoid the Great Tribulation spoken of by Jesus. And yet the ones blessed by God are those, "come out of the great tribulation,+ and they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.+ 15 That is why they are before the throne of God,"___Rev 7:9-17

A limited number are invited to Heaven and the rest of the meek will inherit the Earth.

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Rapture

Definition: The belief that faithful Christians will be bodily caught up from the earth, suddenly taken out of the world, to be united with the Lord “in the air.” The word “rapture” is understood by some persons, but not by all, to be the meaning of 1 Thessalonians 4:17. The word “rapture” does not occur in the inspired Scriptures.

When the apostle Paul said that Christians would be “caught up” to be with the Lord, what subject was being discussed?

1 Thess. 4:13-18, RS: “We would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are asleep [“those who sleep in death,” NE; “those who have died,” TEV, JB], that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, shall not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the archangel’s call, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first; then we who are alive, who are left, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words.” (Evidently some members of the Christian congregation in Thessalonica had died. Paul encouraged the survivors to comfort one another with the resurrection hope. He reminded them that Jesus was resurrected after his death; so, too, at the coming of the Lord, those faithful Christians among them who had died would be raised to be with Christ.)

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DIDCUSSION ABOUT THE RAPTURE

This is another thing most don't understand, especially those who don't go to church and/or don't read the Bible. In 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18, it DESCRIBES the rapture, since nowhere in the Bible does it mention "rapture" by this name. It doesn't have to after it describes what it is. Don't let ignorant (not necessarily dumb, just uneducated in a subject), people mislead you by only one verse in many, or deny categorically the facts. Read the verses for yourself and see that it describes the time when Jesus will come back for us. Then talk with a Bible teaching preacher like a Baptist preacher and he will inform you of what these verses mean. This is the wrong place for honest folk to get true answers, and you should talk to real preachers of Christian churches if you seriously want true answers instead of a load of BS from fools. (For the most part, except from me--I'm one of the honest ones).

it is found in many places in scripture

1 thessalonians 4:13-17

matthew 24:36-44

Read 1Corinthians 15V50ff. Also the book of Thessalonians and 1Peter, and the Book of Revelation. Other uses of the same meaning is called "catching away" or 'the meeting in the air'. The term Rapture means all of the above. It is similar to where people are looking to see the term "Trinity' in relation to the God head of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, and since they cannot see this particular term, they do not see the 'Unity of the Godhead' and Same essence of their purposes. They tend to forget, that all through the Scripture, a well known part of scripture states :in the mouth of two or three witnesses shall a thing be established. And a through Scripture this is adhered to. There are few things that God would tell us to do, that was not practiced by God or Jesus, and this is one case-it is called the Unity of the Holy Trinity-Father, Son and Holy Ghost.

Matthew 24:29-31

“Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

1 Thessalonians 4:17

Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.

Revelation 3:10

Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth.

If you want an honest answer, it is the rapture is not taught in the Bible~ it is just taught in religious circles to people by people who are "unsteady and untaught." <---There is a scripture for you.

God bless~

The term rapture is from the Latin word raptura which simple means "caught away" When the English translations came out the word was translated into English- duh.

You will see rapture as the English phrase "caught up".

In the older Greek manuscripts the word is "harpagisometha" and translates the same- caught up.