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I think that one would find the root word for Rapture in the Latin: Rapio (rapere, raptus)
You may find some form of the word in the Latin Vulgate. I think many people shy away from the word rapture, due to how the word is used throughout Christendom today. Protestant dispensational futurist preachers have redefined the word rapture through culture. Many people hear the word Rapture and immediately think of some Pre-trib snatching up, followed by a seven year tribulation period. The protestant pre-tribbers hold to their views because they say that the 70 weeks of Daniel are not complete. They think that there is a gap in beteween the 69th and 70th week and we are in that Gap. Many radio preachers espouse that view. I myself am a former Protestant that converted to Catholicism. The “church” I attended (Calvary Chapel) held to this pre-trib rapture view. They would talk about this seven year period and alway refer to Daniel 9 (the 70 weeks of Daniel) not being complete. I started to study the book of Revelation, and that’s what lead me away from dispensational futurism and back into the arms of Rome. The 70 weeks have been completed and therefore the 7 year pre-trib rapture has no foundation.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church says
681 On Judgment Day at the end of the world, Christ will come in glory to achieve the definitive triumph of good over evil which, like the wheat and the tares, have grown up together in the course of history.
682 When he comes at the end of time to judge the living and the dead, the glorious Christ will reveal the secret disposition of hearts and will render to each man according to his works, and according to his acceptance or refusal of grace.
The teaching says that we will be held in account together and not have some secret rapture of Christians while others are left behind.
1038 The resurrection of all the dead, "of both the just and the unjust,"623 will precede the Last Judgment. This will be "the hour when all who are in the tombs will hear [the Son of man’s] voice and come forth, those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment."624 Then Christ will come "in his glory, and all the angels with him. . . . Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate them one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, and he will place the sheep at his right hand, but the goats at the left. . . . And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."625
This teaching leaves no room for the Christian raptured secretly and then a tribulation period. We are gathered and seperated together as sheep and goats.
1039 In the presence of Christ, who is Truth itself, the truth of each man’s relationship with God will be laid bare.626 The Last Judgment will reveal even to its furthest consequences the good each person has done or failed to do during his earthly life:
All that the wicked do is recorded, and they do not know. When “our God comes, he does not keep silence.”. . . he will turn towards those at his left hand: . . . "I placed my poor little ones on earth for you. I as their head was seated in heaven at the right hand of my Father - but on earth my members were suffering, my members on earth were in need. If you gave anything to my members, what you gave would reach their Head. Would that you had known that my little ones were in need when I placed them on earth for you and appointed them your stewards to bring your good works into my treasury. But you have placed nothing in their hands; therefore you have found nothing in my presence."627
To be Catholic you must agree with what has been dogmatically defined, if you do not agree with the dogmatic teachings of the Catholic Church then you are in protest, therefore wouldn’t that make you a PROTESTant?
You may find some form of the word in the Latin Vulgate. I think many people shy away from the word rapture, due to how the word is used throughout Christendom today. Protestant dispensational futurist preachers have redefined the word rapture through culture. Many people hear the word Rapture and immediately think of some Pre-trib snatching up, followed by a seven year tribulation period. The protestant pre-tribbers hold to their views because they say that the 70 weeks of Daniel are not complete. They think that there is a gap in beteween the 69th and 70th week and we are in that Gap. Many radio preachers espouse that view. I myself am a former Protestant that converted to Catholicism. The “church” I attended (Calvary Chapel) held to this pre-trib rapture view. They would talk about this seven year period and alway refer to Daniel 9 (the 70 weeks of Daniel) not being complete. I started to study the book of Revelation, and that’s what lead me away from dispensational futurism and back into the arms of Rome. The 70 weeks have been completed and therefore the 7 year pre-trib rapture has no foundation.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church says
681 On Judgment Day at the end of the world, Christ will come in glory to achieve the definitive triumph of good over evil which, like the wheat and the tares, have grown up together in the course of history.
682 When he comes at the end of time to judge the living and the dead, the glorious Christ will reveal the secret disposition of hearts and will render to each man according to his works, and according to his acceptance or refusal of grace.
The teaching says that we will be held in account together and not have some secret rapture of Christians while others are left behind.
1038 The resurrection of all the dead, "of both the just and the unjust,"623 will precede the Last Judgment. This will be "the hour when all who are in the tombs will hear [the Son of man’s] voice and come forth, those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment."624 Then Christ will come "in his glory, and all the angels with him. . . . Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate them one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, and he will place the sheep at his right hand, but the goats at the left. . . . And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."625
This teaching leaves no room for the Christian raptured secretly and then a tribulation period. We are gathered and seperated together as sheep and goats.
1039 In the presence of Christ, who is Truth itself, the truth of each man’s relationship with God will be laid bare.626 The Last Judgment will reveal even to its furthest consequences the good each person has done or failed to do during his earthly life:
All that the wicked do is recorded, and they do not know. When “our God comes, he does not keep silence.”. . . he will turn towards those at his left hand: . . . "I placed my poor little ones on earth for you. I as their head was seated in heaven at the right hand of my Father - but on earth my members were suffering, my members on earth were in need. If you gave anything to my members, what you gave would reach their Head. Would that you had known that my little ones were in need when I placed them on earth for you and appointed them your stewards to bring your good works into my treasury. But you have placed nothing in their hands; therefore you have found nothing in my presence."627
To be Catholic you must agree with what has been dogmatically defined, if you do not agree with the dogmatic teachings of the Catholic Church then you are in protest, therefore wouldn’t that make you a PROTESTant?