Actually the idea of a "Rapture" comes, not from Revelations, but from the old canny politico Saul of Tarsus himself. He says, in 1 Thessalonians 4: "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words."
From there it all comes. Not from a divine vision, not from prophecy or established Scripture, but from a leader of the Church offering words of comfort and advice to a new church.
And even then, look at it - in context, it doesn't even talk about a rapture prior to years of tribulation. It talks about the resurrection of the dead and the ascension of the living when Christ returns to Earth. As far as Revelations is concerned, the faithful will suffer along with the damned as the apocalypse looms.
The word rapture doesn't appear in the Bible. Neither does the word "trinity", for that matter, but for that we have to look to the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD...
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From there it all comes. Not from a divine vision, not from prophecy or established Scripture, but from a leader of the Church offering words of comfort and advice to a new church.
And even then, look at it - in context, it doesn't even talk about a rapture prior to years of tribulation. It talks about the resurrection of the dead and the ascension of the living when Christ returns to Earth. As far as Revelations is concerned, the faithful will suffer along with the damned as the apocalypse looms.
The word rapture doesn't appear in the Bible. Neither does the word "trinity", for that matter, but for that we have to look to the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD...