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'''The Rapture''' is a term used to describe the physical resurrection of the Church which many expect to take place in the [[Last Days]]. As described in 1 Corinthians 15:50-54 and 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18, this resurrection will include Christians who have not yet died physically.

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'''The Rapture''' (from the Greek word έκσταση, ekstasi) is a term used to describe the physical resurrection of the Church which many expect to take place in the [[Last Days]]. As described in 1 Corinthians 15:50-54 and 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18, this resurrection will include Christians who have not yet died physically.

==Meaning of the term==

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==Origin==

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There are several theories on the origin of the rapture.<ref>Sanders, E.F. [http://www.theologue.org/origins.html ''The Origin of the Pretribulational Rapture Theory''] (n.d.)</ref> Most of these are dated from the late 18th century onwards, but the concept was most popularly explained by [[John Nelson Darby]], a mid-19th century preacher.

Those who do not accept the pre-tribulation view of the rapture like to point out that the rapture was first explained by a mid-19th century preacher, John Nelson Darby. Those who believe in a pre-tribulation view will either say there is sufficient explanation in the Bible or point out that Saint Ephrem The Syrian wrote about the concept of the rapture if not in the same terminology.

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==Some justifications supporting the Pre-Tribulation view==

The concept of the rapture is described as a mystery or something which was not revealed in the Old Testament. However, the disciples would have been familiar with the resurrection mentioned in the Old Testament which describes believers being resurrected to the Earth and then God’s Messiah setting up God’s physical kingdom on the Earth. Based on the perceptions of the physical kingdom of Jesus on the Earth, there was a consensus among the people when Jesus was on the Earth that God’s Kingdom would be established on the Earth as opposed to starting out in Heaven: Matthew 21:8-9; Acts 1:6; John 21:23.

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===Old Testament and Tribulation Saints who died are resurrected to the Earth===

Jude 14 Describes a freshly resurrected Enoch on the ground admiring the return of Jesus with His Saints returning from Heaven with Him

Daniel 12:2 Describes saints who are sleeping (meaning they are dead) who are resurrected to the Earth (not to Heaven) at the end of the age.

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The resurrection which occurs at the return of Jesus Christ will include believers from Adam until the resurrection of Jesus Christ and also those who became born again after the rapture of the church but then died before the end.

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The resurrection which occurs at the return of Jesus Christ will include believers from Adam until the resurrection of Jesus Christ and also those who became born again after the rapture of the church but then died before the end.

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===Tribulation Believers Alive at the Return of Jesus Will Be Rescued, Not Resurrected===

Daniel 12:1 Describe believers alive on the Earth who are physically rescued by angels and then left alive on the Earth without a resurrection.

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===Relationship with Tribulationism===

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The original reference by St [[Paul]] that "we which are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air" (at I Thessalonians 4:17) clearly dates it to the time of the [[Second Coming]], and does not suggest in any way that it will result in Christians being spared in advance the horrors of the [[Tribulation]], as is sometimes proposed. Matthew 24:29-35 seems to favor the [[Prewrath Rapture|pre-wrath]] position, however:

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There is some debate within dispensationalist/tribulationist circles over whether the Rapture will occur before, during or after the reign of the [[Antichrist]]. The original reference by St [[Paul]] that "we which are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air" (at I Thessalonians 4:17) clearly dates it to the time of the [[Second Coming]], and does not suggest in any way that it will result in Christians being spared in advance the horrors of the [[Tribulation]], as is sometimes proposed. Matthew 24:29-35 seems to favor the [[Prewrath Rapture|pre-wrath]] position, however:

{{Bible quote|Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer [is] nigh: So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, [even] at the doors. Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.|book=Matthew|chap=24|verses=29-35|version=KJV}}

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