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The rapture, properly understood, is fully compatible with Roman Catholicism. The English word rapture comes from the Latin word raptus ("a carrying off"). This Latin word (or a similar one, rapio ) is employed in the writings of Augustine and Thomas Aquinas, and it appears in the Bible, which indicates that the word rapture is perfectly ...
Strictly speaking, Catholics do believe in a form of “rapture:” a bodily assumption into heaven of all the faithful, both living and dead, at Jesus' second and final coming and judgement. This will be preceded by the appearance of the Antichrist and an associated period of intense persecution of Christians known as the tribulation.
Learn about the biblical view of the rapture, the transformation and catching up of all Christians to meet Christ in the air. Compare different interpretations of the rapture and its relation to the second coming of Christ and the end times.
The second largest proportion was the 25 percent who agreed that “the concept of the Rapture is not to be taken literally.” Furthermore, 18 percent selected a post-Tribulation paradigm, with smaller proportions for mid-Tribulation (4 percent), pre-wrath (4 percent), preterist ideals (1 percent), and none of the options presented (8 percent).
Though many believe and some protestant groups teach this “Pre-Tribulation Rapture” theory, they erroneously do so, because neither Jesus, Paul, Peter, John, nor any of the other writers of the Bible taught this. Nor did the early church fathers in all their many writings , nor any others for centuries upon centuries ...
Catholics believe that the Spirit does this through the church and its structures - specifically the Catholic church. Catholics would fall in with mainstream Protestants (but not Pentecostals) in believing that the supernatural gifts of the Spirit (tongues, healings etc.) are not given to all Christians, and are relatively rare.
The web page quotes Paul's desire to be with Christ and cites 1 Corinthians 15:42-44 on the resurrection of the body. It affirms that believers go to heaven when they die and will be reunited with their bodies at Jesus' return.
In another EFCA, in which the leaders are also predominately Calvinist, they do not believe in the literal rapture, but they believe that Christ will return to earth - so the second coming. In another example, a branch of 7th day Adventists believe in the second coming, and some events of the tribulation, such as the Anti-Christ, but no literal ...
A caveat about my answer below is that I'm a Lutheran (LCMS) pastor and am trying to do justice to the Catholic view on this. Lutherans, Catholics, Orthodox and others actually share the same view on the "thousand-year reign." The Catholic view of the thousand-year reign is termed amillennialism.
The web page provides biblical evidence that believers in Christ go to heaven when they die, and that their bodies will be reunited with their souls at the end of time. It also offers comfort and hope to the grieving spouse who asked the question.