From: user6340@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   First, I want to point out that the Greek word "harpazo"   
   means to seize, snatch, or carry off by force. It's that   
   Greek word that is translated into English in capital   
   letters just below (that's my highlight, just to show   
   where the word "harpazo" was used in the original Greek).   
      
   Next, the Latin Vulgate translates "harpazo" as "rapiemur",   
   which is the basis for the word "rapture" in English. With   
   all that hopefully understood, here are the scriptures that   
   describe the coming Rapture:   
      
   "For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a   
   cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with   
   the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ   
   will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left,   
   will be CAUGHT UP together with them in the clouds to   
   meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with   
   the Lord." 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17   
      
   This is backed up in the Bible by Jesus Himself, who   
   said this:   
      
   "In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so,   
   would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for   
   you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come   
   again and will take you to myself, that where I am you   
   may be also." John 14:2-3   
      
   But before we can go meet Jesus in the air, our bodies   
   must be changed. And then He will take us to that place   
   He has prepared for us in the Kingdom of God:   
      
   "I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit   
   the Kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the   
   imperishable. Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not   
   all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in   
   the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.   
      
   "For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised   
   imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable   
   body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body   
   must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the   
   imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then   
   shall come to pass the saying that is written: 'Death is   
   swallowed up in victory.'" 1 Corinthians 15:50   
      
   So that's it. The Rapture is most certainly in the Bible,   
   whether anyone chooses to believe in it or not. It's in   
   the Bible, and that's what matters to me. Because the Bible   
   is the true and accurate Word of God. The Bible has proven   
   itself to be true with its 100% accuracy rating with its   
   prophecies that have already happened.   
      
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