Rapture: Why Is The Rapture Taught Without Being In The Bible?

People often forget that God is a God of order, not confusion. Often movies and books and even some Liberal Bible teachers say that when Jesus Christ returns “we will (or shall) all meet Him in the air.” What these people fail to realize is that the Greek word translated as AIR actually means BREATH, not atmospheric air (I Thessalonians).

Many such liberties have been taken in modern Bible translations, even amid our beloved KJV, where this poor verse translation appears (but the translators warned us about such instances in a letter/preface).

The mistranslated verse in I Thessalonians is the basis for the so-called “Rapture Theory.” (The word RAPTURE doesn’t even appear in the Holy Bible.) It came about in the early 1830’s when a woman that was considered crazy by most folks around her happened to speculate that there would be a Rapture when Jesus returns. People were listening.

A couple of preachers heard what the woman was babbling, and took it upon themselves to begin the “Doctrine of the Rapture,” between 1830-1832. We are talking the 19^th Century.

This was not something that was taught in the first 1800 years after Christ ascended from Earth, physically. It was a new doctrine, and nowadays you would think it was the Gospel.

The very fact that Jesus is descending and coming down to the Earth when He returns, appears to be clue enough that we may have been reading the Bible wrong with respect to this so-called Rapture.

We are to be with Christ, and He is to rule 1,000 years on Earth, is He not? What about His raging in Revelation?

As a child I was always taught that Jesus would return and His Church would join Him in the air and be gone before “The Tribulation.” The problem is that this theory leaves out the anti-Christ and all the happenings on this Earth before and after Christ returns. Then again, who knows?

I do not have the answers or know the “End Times” as well as I should, so I cannot speculate much further; but, I am unsure that we have been thinking correctly about this speculated “Rapture.”

Then again, maybe I am wrong. Whatever God wants to happen will happen. I am no language professor. Amen.