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The term rapture was used by Philip Doddridge [65] and John Gill [66] in their New Testament commentaries, with the idea that believers would be caught up prior to judgment on earth and Jesus' second coming. An 1828 edition of Matthew Henry's An Exposition of the Old and New Testament uses the word "rapture" in explicating 1 Thessalonians 4:17 ...
The rapture is an eschatological term used by certain Christians, particularly within branches of North American evangelicalism, referring to an end time event when all Christian believers—living and dead—will rise into Heaven and join Christ.
Rapture – the belief that either before, or simultaneously with, the Second Coming of Jesus Christ to earth, believers who have died will be raised and believers who are still alive and remain shall be caught up together with them (the resurrected dead believers) in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.
Rapture or The Rapture may also refer to: Rapture (Buddhism) , a common translation of the Pali word piti , which is a factor of meditative absorption A feeling of ecstatic joy or delight, synonymous with ecstasy
Christian predictions typically refer to events like the Rapture, Great Tribulation, Last Judgment, and the Second Coming of Christ. End-time events are normally predicted to occur within the lifetime of the person making the prediction and are usually made using the Bible—in particular the New Testament —as either the primary or exclusive ...
The final judgment of sinners by Jesus Christ; carving on the central portal of Amiens Cathedral, France.. The Last Judgment [a] [b] is a concept found across the Abrahamic religions and the Frashokereti of Zoroastrianism.
The word "eschatology" arises from the Ancient Greek term ἔσχατος (éschatos), meaning "last", and -logy, meaning "the study of", and first appeared in English around 1844. [4] The Oxford English Dictionary defines eschatology as "the part of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind".
In 1989, Whisenant published The Final Shout: Rapture Report 1989, updating his prediction to 1989. [34] 1993 Edgar C. Whisenant When his 1989 prediction failed, Whisenant predicted the Second Coming in 1993, publishing 23 Reasons Why a Pre-Tribulation Rapture Looks Like it will Occur on Rosh-Hashanah 1993. [35] 6 September 1994 Harold Camping