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I love this post. Explains it very well.Dentonz said:Okay people, the word 'rapture' is not in the Bible; but the explanation is.
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 " 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: 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."
Rapture is defined in the dictionary as: the state of being transported by a lofty emotion; ecstacy, abduction, carrying off, or to be transported from one place to another.
It just wouldn't sound good to talk about the 'caught up', so we use a more suitable word.
The term "Rapture" was just a word used to describe an event. A man named John Darby may have coined this word the same year that he discovered this Biblical doctrine.
I will quote BenJosh, an RLDS forum member here.
"John Darby developed it after he hit his head in a riding accident. While recouping and bed-ridden in 1827 he came up with the rapture doctrine."
"The Messianic believers tie the rapture with the feast of Rosh Hashanah, the sounding of trumpets."
This also has subtle references to the "day that no man knoweth".
The city of Enoch was "raptured" or "caught up" into heaven.
According to the lost portions of Genesis, that were revealed to Joseph Smith, in the "Inspired Version" of the Bible, or the "Joseph Smith Translation" of the Bible, we will meet the city of Enoch in the air, with Christ, and all those that have ever lived and died on earth that truly believe in Christ, and keep all of His commandments. We will meet all true followers of Christ in an event called "the rapture". This includes all people of every Christian religion. Most Mormons have not even considered this and would say they don't believe in it. Why they don't is beyond me. It is scriptural and is sound doctrine. We meet Christ in the air at His Second Coming, NOT ON EARTH. I think it would be safe to say that most Mormons believe in "the rapture" they just call it the "Second Coming" and do not FULLY understand this event, when we will meet Christ "in the air" at his second coming.
Any Mormon that does not believe this, has not read their scriptures, thoroughly, and choose to be ignorant of such things.
I am a believer in an event, referred to by millions of Christians, as "the rapture". I can prove it through widely accepted scripture, the Bible. The Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, and the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible, some of which is in the Pearl of Great Price, called the Book of Moses.