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<span class="header">Isn't it true that the word "rapture" is not found in the Bible?</span>
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I've always been totally amazed at how some folks write me and
try use the fact that the word “rapture” does not appear in the
Bible as an argument against its validity. The issue should be
whether or not the concept of the rapture appears in the Bible.
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With 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 giving us such a clear description
of the rapture, you would have to conclude some people are just
playing games with the Word of God. I could change the name of
my site to “Catching-Up Ready” to satisfy these folks, but I
hardly think that would improve things.
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Their logic runs very thin because a huge number of words don't
appear in the Bible, including the word “Bible.” Because God's
Word was originally written in Hebrew and Greek, one could truthfully
say that no English words are found in the Bible. Let's take
a look at 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 in the original Greek:
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4:16 oti autos o kurios en keleusmati en fwnh arcaggelou kai
en salpiggi qeou katabhsetai ap ouranou kai oi nekroi en cristw
anasthsontai prwton 4:17 epeita hmeis oi zwntes oi perileipomenoi
ama sun autois arpaghsomeqa en nefelais eis apanthsin tou kuriou
eis aera kai outws pantote sun kuriw esomeqa 4:18 wste parakaleite
allhlous en tois logois toutois
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I don't see the dead in Christ rising, Jesus descending from
Heaven, or us meeting Him in the air. They're right; the word
“rapture” is nowhere to be found. All I see is gobbledygook.
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For the record, the word “rapture” comes from the Latin word
rapturo, which is a translation of the Greek verb &quot;caught
up&quot; that’s found in 1 Thessalonians 4:17. You can call it
the “pre-trib rapture,” the “pre-trib rapturo,” or the “pre-trib
caught up” - it's all the same thing.
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