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17 Bible Verses About the Rapture

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  • The English word rapture is derived from rapiemur, “we will be caught up,” the verb the Latin Vulgate uses in 1 Thessalonians 4:17, where the Greek verb is harpazo, to seize or snatch.
  • 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 and 1 Corinthians 15:51-52 both describe a trumpet, the dead in Christ raised, and living believers caught up or changed.
  • Matthew 24:29-31 places the gathering of the elect “immediately after the distress of those days,” in sight of all the peoples of the earth.
  • 2 Thessalonians 2:1-3 says the day of the Lord and “our being gathered to him” will not come until the man of lawlessness is revealed.
  • The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod places the catching up at Christ’s visible return on the last day; Dallas Theological Seminary’s doctrinal statement places it before Israel’s seventieth week.

The rapture is the moment, at Christ’s coming, when believers still alive are caught up with the risen dead to meet the Lord in the air. Paul describes it in 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17, and the English word is derived from the verb the Latin Vulgate uses for “caught up” in verse 17, rapiemur, “we will be caught up.” Other passages speak of Christ coming for his people: 1 Corinthians 15:51-52 on the living changed “in the twinkling of an eye,”…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod. “Does the LCMS believe in the rapture?” in Frequently Asked Questions: Doctrine. lcms.org

Dallas Theological Seminary. Doctrinal Statement, Article XVIII, “The Blessed Hope,” and Article XIX, “The Tribulation.” dts.edu

Biblia Sacra Vulgata, 1 Thessalonians 4:17: “simul rapiemur cum illis in nubibus.” biblegateway.com

Strong’s Greek 726, ἁρπάζω (harpazo): to seize, snatch, take away by force. biblehub.com/greek/726

Strong’s Greek 529, ἀπάντησις (apantesis): a meeting; used in Matthew 25:6, Acts 28:15 and 1 Thessalonians 4:17. biblehub.com/greek/529

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