David Harmon says:

Wow!

Thank you.

Joe Selig says:

Amen! brother,
Thank you for putting the “Rapture” into biblical perspective for me.. the very notion seemed like science fiction to me.
God Bless,
Joe

John L. Moesche says:

And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; And the name of the star is called Walvoord: and the third part of the waters became Walvoord; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter. -Revelation 8:10-11

A WORD TO THE WISE

The word ‘church’ isn’t mentioned on earth after Revelation, Chapter 3, and the Cult will say that its because the church has been raptured. This is a lame argument though, because the word ‘church’ is not explicitly mentioned in Heaven either.

The word ‘Rapture’, according to Wikipedia: “in the context of eschatology, is an English noun derived from the Latin [a bad source] verb rapi?, “caught up” or “taken away.” as found in the Vulgate rendering of 1 Thessalonians 4:17. The Latin rapiemur is Saint Jerome’s translation of the Koine Greek verb ???????????? [harpagesometha], which means “we shall be caught up,” “taken away,” or “raptured.” The dictionary form of this Greek verb is harpaz? (??????), which is used only in 1 Thessalonians 4:17 and Acts 8:38.”

The Rapture Cult wearies me when they routinely crow that; “the word Rapture is not in the Bible, as the word Bible is not in the Bible, but, we know that a Bible exists because you’re reading from one right now, yuck yuck.” Those with eyes to see can recognize that these tricks are just some more symptoms of disingenuous misdirection to lead you away from the truth. Not surprisingly, there are other missing words that aren’t specifically in the Bible, and a couple of these are:

abandon, abrupt, absolute, across, address, aggressive, aim, ale, alert, ambition, amulet, amuse, animal, announce, anthem, anxious, apathy, apology, apostate, applause, arc, architect, aroma, arrange, artery, article, aspire, assume, attack, attempt, attract, award, awful, bacon, bait, barb, barely, beak, below, belt, bet, bib, big, bin, block, bother, bounce, brace, brew, bridge, brilliant, bronze, brush, buck, bug, bust, butcher, button, cabbage, calendar, candy, canopy, cap, cape, capture, caravan, caress, carpet, carrot, cat, caution, ceiling, center, chair, cheap, chin, chip, claim, clam, clarify, clash, class, clench, clergy, clerk, clever, cling, clot, club, clutch, coach, coarse, cobra, cocoon, coffee, coin, collapse, column, comb, combine, comet, commerce, community, complement, complex, compliment, compromise, concur, condense, cone, confine, confront, connect, construct, contact, contest, contract, contrast, contrive, control, converge, cot, cotton, cough, coward, crab, crack, crawl, cream, crowd, crude, cube, cult, curb, curl, curve, damp, date, decorate, deluge, demon, dense, depend, deplore, deposit, depress, desecrate, design, destiny, detail, develop, dictate, dire, distort, disturb, dive, dock, dodge, doe, donate, doom, douse, draft, drain, drench, drift, drill, drizzle, droop, duck, eager, edict, effort, ego, elbow, elephant, equip, essence, evaporate, exist, explain, expose, fabric, fact, fate, fawn, feature, fern, fertile, fib, flavor, flaw, fleet, flush, formal, fortune, fragrant, fume, fun, fur, fuss, gag, gamble, game, gear, gem, gesture, glance, glimpse, glow, goal, gorge, gossip, grade, grasp, grip, guess, harbor, harmony, harsh, haul, hint, hitch, hoard, hog, human, humid, humor, hurry, hustle, idea, identity, ignite, illegal, immoral, indicate, inept, insect, insert, insight, interest, interior, introduce, invest, involve, item, jade, jam, jerk, jug, keen, knot, lapse, lash, lax, leak, legend, level, limb, limp, link, liquid, list, lit, local, lounge, luck, lug. lull, lumber, lure, luxury, mace, main, major, malevolent, mane, map, mass, mat, match, medium, menorah, metal, meteor, method, millennium, mineral, minor, mirror, misfit, mission, mob, mold, moral, mud, mug, muscle, mush, mute, mystic, myth, nap, nape, nasty, neat, nerve, neutral, nice, nip, normal, notion, numerous, oasis, obstruct, occult, ocean, ode, omnipresent, omniscient, opposite, oral, orange, ordeal, ore, oyster, pagan, page, panel, parallel, pat, patch, pea, peak, peek, peg, pelt, penalty, pepper, period, pet, phantom, pie, pig, pinch, pink, pious, plan, plod, plump, pocket, pod, poke, polite, pollen, pop, pope, popular, pork, pose, positive, potential, pouch, practical, pragmatic, precipice, precise, predator, pregnant, pressure, pretend, pretty, primary, probation, problem, progress, project, prominent, prone, propose, prospect, prostrate, prowl, pry, pulp, pump, punch, puncture, pungent, pup, pupil, purgatory, pyramid, quality, quantity, quote, rabbit, rack, radiant, radical, raft, raid, rake, rat, ravage, ray, react, real, recess, recite, recognize, reduce, refer, reflect, regret, regular, relate, relish, remind, replace, resign, respond, result, retrieve, review, revise, revolution, rice, ridicule, rig, rigid, rim, risk, roam, romantic, rout, rug, rupture, rut, sacrament, sacred, sag, sauce, savage, scandal, scene, scoop, score, scrap, scratch, screen, seep, sentiment, sermon, sex, shallow,shatter, shell, shift, shop, shy, sinister, sip, site, skim, slash, sleeve, slice, slope, sly, smile, snag, snake, snap, soap, social, solid, solution, soup, sovereign, spell, spike, splash, splint, split, squash, squeeze, stab, stage, start, starve, stash, statue, steam, stew, stow, strap, stray, stress, strict, sty, style, suggest, suicide, surface, surge, surpass, surrender, survey, suspect, suspend, sway, swing, symbol, sympathy, system, tab, tad, tag, tangle, tap, tar, tea, team, tense, territory, test, theology, theory, thrive, tight, tiny, toast, tomato, tone, tough, trace, track, trail, trait, tray, treat, trick, Trinity, trip, trombone, trot, trunk, tub, tuck, tune, tunnel, twin, twist, type, unearth, union, unique, universal, upset, urn, vacant, vagrant, vague, vase, vast, vegetable, Venus, verse, vicious, victim, vilify, vindicate, vital, vocal, volcano, vulgar, vulnerable, wad, wade, waist, wan, warrant, wart, welcome, width, wobble, worry, wreck, yard.

My point is that the above words could be in the Bible. Just because the word “rapture” is not in the Bible does not mean that it does belong there. Not even the concept of a rapture is a reality. You would be better to insert ‘microwave oven’ in the text. At least that is something that, even though it wasn’t in existence in the first century, it is now. The rapture was never a possibility, and never will be. Everyone will be left behind at the time that, a particular waste material from the bowels, comes against, with force, a certain kind of electric device to move air for cooling. If you’re waiting on the rapture, it will be a crap shoot. Even if the rapture were true, Pastor John Hagee would need two tractor beams to heave him up. That Slimfast® just isn’t working for him, and, who really wants to (ugh) have Mr Hagee speaking in thongs?