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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