...and Snatching Away the Church

What is the "Rapture"?

40 Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. 

41 Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.

The New International Version. (2011). (Mt 24:40–41). Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan.

The rapture is one of the most PREPOSTEROUS events in the Bible. Human beings will be snatched up off of the earth and levitated. They will be carried up into the clouds. As they are taken into the sky, they will be able to see each other. Words used to describe this event include "rapture" from the Latin Vulgate Bible, "harpazo" from the Greek, and "snatched away" from the Engish versions of the Bible.

The idea that a living creature without wings can rise up into the air is ridiculous. However, I have seen it done with a frog. It was levitated about a foot in the air and when it was lowered back to the surface, it hoppped away uninjured. The tool used was made of two large magnets. It can be done by humans to humans. It is not at all impossible.

Where does the "Rapture" take place?

 The rapturee will be a world wide event.  The Bible speaks of a person woorking in the fieald and another person sleeing.  By the way, this is one mention in the Bible of the earth being a "globe" and not a "flat earth".  It implies that the rapture will happen all over the earth at the same moment in time.

Who is taken during the "Rapture"?

 All "born again" "saved" Christains inclludiing those who are dead and buried and those who are alive at the moment of the rapture.  Those Christians who are dead and buried will be raisedd first followed immediately by those Christians who are alive will be raised to meet Jesus in the clouds.

In the very near future, Jesus will return "in the air" and will raise the dead in Christ from their graves first and then will snatch away the living Christians , the "church", who will meet him in the air.

How is the "Rapture" accompished?

There is no physiccal descriptioon in the Bible of a specific technique for the lifting of bodies into the clouds.  The Bible simply says that it will be done and Christ will meet them in the clouds.  One of the reasons I decided to study Physiccs was to findd how things that had only been seen as being "spiritual" could actually be "physical" as much as "spiritual".  In this instance, the spirtual lifting of the church may now be described as a physical event.  The earth is embedded in a magnetic field.   I have seen a video of a living fog being levitated by a magnectic field.  When the magnets wer turned off the frog was lowere and had noill effects.  A living ceature suh as a  human Christian can be lifted in the same way.

Why does the "Rapture" occur?

One purpose of the Rapture is to allow Christians to avoid the Tribullatioon and the "Day of the Lord's wrath."   The Bible describes living conditions during the period after the Rapture as the worst times in the history of the world.

When does the "Rapture" take placce?

You may hear some pastors say that the "The Rapture doesn't exist. The word "Rapture" is not even in the Bible."

WRONG!

The word "Rapture" is not in the "English language King James Version" of the Holy Bible. Where do these people think we got the word Rapture in the first place? For around a thousand years the Latin Vulgate Bible was one of the most popular versions of the Holy Bible. The word "Rapture" is the English translation of the Latin word for "Rapture" found in the Latin Vulgate Version of the Bible. The Rapture will take place beefore the "Tribulatioon" as stated iin Revelation 3:10: 10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth."

The Holy Bible: King James Version. (2009). (Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version., Re 3:10). Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 and

13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
16 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:
17 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.
18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

The Holy Bible: King James Version. (2009). (Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version., 1 Th 4:13–18). Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.

1 Corinthians 15:50-44
42 So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; 43 it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; 44 it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.
If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 45 So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit. 46 The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual. 47 The first man was of the dust of the earth; the second man is of heaven. 48 As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven. 49 And just as we have borne the image of the earthly man, so shall we bear the image of the heavenly man.
50 I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—52 in a flash, 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. 53 For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.” k
55 “Where, O death, is your victory?
Where, O death, is your sting?” l

The New International Version. (2011). (1 Co 15:42–55). Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan.