Rapture

What is the rapture? Is the rapture biblical?

Some end times teachings are clear from Scripture, such as Christ’s second coming and the final judgment. Whether there will also be a “rapture” of the church—with Christians taken up to avoid a tribulation period—is a matter of speculation among Christians.

• 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18 Brothers, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death , so that you will not grieve like the rest, who are without hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, we also believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have…
• 1 Corinthians 15:3–4 For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,
• 1 Corinthians 15:51–58 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed — in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must…

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