Do you believe in rapture?

[Clovis]

Do you believe in rapture?

 

[davidv]

Until you clearly define what you mean by “rapture”, I cannot answer. There are too many connotations, many of them contradictory.

 

[war_eagle]

Do you believe in rapture?

Yes, the Bible very clearly teaches that Christ will return to take His church (and, as distasteful as it may seem, that includes us non-Roman Catholics).

 

[wifeandmomoftwo]

Rapture like the Left Behind Series of books??
Nope.

 

[michaelawells87]

No. The rapture implies a 3rd coming of the Lord since He’ll come to take the Church away, and then come back to judge the rest of the world. There is only one Second Coming.

 

[Zooey]

Until you clearly define what you mean by “rapture”, I cannot answer. There are too many connotations, many of them contradictory.

Yes, I think the same…

 

[MH84]

No. The rapture implies a 3rd coming of the Lord since He’ll come to take the Church away, and then come back to judge the rest of the world. There is only one Second Coming.

Jesus always present in the Blessed Sacrament anyway.

 

[wisdomseeker]

not the way the rapturists imply. but i do believe that those left behind are the ones to be saved. the Bible reports that when the flood came Noah was left and all the others were taken away by the waters. Jesus himself says in his parable of the wheat and weeds. do not take the weeds away yet it might hurt the wheat. Jesus says I am the vine and every branch in me that does no t bear good fruits will be cut off and thrown in a fire. there are many others. so those not in the Ark(Catholic Church) are in great dangerous of being taken away, away from the Lord. I believe only what the True Church teaches. and this teach is condemned by the Church of Christ CC.

 

[war_eagle]

so those not in the Ark(Catholic Church) are in great dangerous of being taken away, away from the Lord.

Roman Catholicism is not “the ark”. Christ is the ark.

 

[Penitus]

Roman Catholicism is not “the ark”. Christ is the ark.

and the Church is His body. Same thing.

 

[wisdomseeker]

your opinion does not count. the word of the Lord does. it is what it says it is. think end of the first world and the Ark. end of this world and the Church. God used the Ark to save those who repented. Jesus uses the Church to save those who repents.

 

[wisdomseeker]

and the Church is His body. Same thing.

well said!!!

 

[Mannyfit75]

Roman Catholicism is not “the ark”. Christ is the ark.

No. Jesus is the Covenant. Remember, Jesus said: “Take this all of you and drink from it. This is the cup of my Blood. The Blood of the New Covenant.”

The Ark holds the Word of God, or carries it. The Old Testament Ark carried the Tablet of the Ten Commandments (Word of God), Aaron’s Rod (symbolizes the Levite Priesthood), and Manna. Jesus is the Word made flesh, Eternal Priest, and Living Manna, Bread of Life.

 

[Mannyfit75]

Catholic tradition, led by the Fathers of the Church, has considered the Ark of the Covenant as one of the purest and richest symbols of the realities of the New Law. It signifies, in the first place, the Incarnate Word of God. “Christ himself”, says St. Thomas Aquinas, “was signified by the Ark. For in the same manner as the Ark was made of setim wood, so also was the body of Christ composed of the most pure human substance. The Ark was entirely overlaid with gold, because Christ was filled with wisdom and charity, which gold symbolizes. In the Ark there was a golden vase: this represents Jesus’ most holy soul containing the fulness of sanctity and the godhead, figured by the manna. There was also Aaron’s rod, to indicate the sacerdotal of Jesus Christ priest forever. Finally the stone tables of the Law were likewise contained in the Ark, to mean that Jesus Christ is the author of the Law”. To these point touched by the Angel of the Schools, it might be added that the Ascension of Christ to heaven after His victory over death and sin is figured by the coming up of the Ark to Sion. St. Bonaventure has also seen in the Ark a mystical representation of the Holy Eucharist. In like manner the Ark might be very well regarded as a mystical figure of the Blessed Virgin, called by the Church the “Ark of the Covenant” — Faederis Arca.

newadvent.org/cathen/01721a.htm

 

[lak611]

No. The rapture implies a 3rd coming of the Lord since He’ll come to take the Church away, and then come back to judge the rest of the world. There is only one Second Coming.

I agree with you.

 

[mahoneyt]

Do you believe in rapture?

I do, because then I can make up any science fiction I want.

Then Jesus descended riding two alligators like chariots and all his chosen elect were given laser beams to destroy the evil beaver army. Then I the blink of an eye Martin Luther appears on stage singing songs from REO Speedwagon. Then John Calvin swings out on the stage dressed as a Kermit from the Muppets singing God bless america. Then Jerry Falwell starts the Baton Death March toward heaven in a clown car dressed as Santa.

Thats just the Prophecy that came to me after reading Revelation. Its all going to happen in the next year.

 

[juliamajor]

I do, because then I can make up any science fiction I want.

Then Jesus descended riding two alligators like chariots and all his chosen elect were given laser beams to destroy the evil beaver army. Then I the blink of an eye Martin Luther appears on stage singing songs from REO Speedwagon. Then John Calvin swings out on the stage dressed as a Kermit from the Muppets singing God bless america. Then Jerry Falwell starts the Baton Death March toward heaven in a clown car dressed as Santa.

Thats just the Prophecy that came to me after reading Revelation. Its all going to happen in the next year.

Wow-this is freaky-that’s the same as my vision!!

 

[quasimodo]

Catholics believe in the Rapture at the end of time. But that is all. The rapture at the end … as was said not third or fourth return.

Then Jesus descended riding two alligators like chariots and all his chosen elect were given laser beams to destroy the evil beaver army. Then I the blink of an eye Martin Luther appears on stage singing songs from REO Speedwagon. Then John Calvin swings out on the stage dressed as a Kermit from the Muppets singing God bless america. Then Jerry Falwell starts the Baton Death March toward heaven in a clown car dressed as Santa.

No, No, NO! Not Luther singing REO Speedwagon. You are engaging in eisegesis and not exegesis. Scripture clearly calls for Meat Loaf singing the entire Bat Out of Hell album. That’s the trouble with Sola Scriptura.

 

[Neil_Anthony]

I put no because I believe the Church will be here during the tribulation.

 

[DLC]

The rapture is seen in these verses.
1 Thess 4:13-18; 1 Cor. 15:51-53; John 41:1-3.

The second coming of the Christ is seen in these verses.
Joel 3:12-16; Rev. 19"11-21; Zech. 14:1-5; Matt. 24:29-31.

If one studies these passages it will be brought out that there are enough differences between the Rapture passages and the Second Coming passages that a claim can legitimately be made that they are two different events.