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Date: 2005-12-21 11:59 am (UTC)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...