Why is the rapture unbiblical?

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Can you give as much information as possible? My pastor back home Gary me a very simple answer: There’s no foundation in Revelation.

But I have OCD and I need reassurance of everything. Can somebody help me put the final nail in the coffin for me, here?
 
1 thes 4 says the dead in Christ rise first, i. e. resurrection is before going up in the air to meet Jesus.

The Bible says over and over again the resurrection is on the last day.
 
Not to highjack this thread, but my cousin told me about a very funny thing he saw on some news program one time. There was a (very Protestant) family where the parents believed in the rapture–and that it was coming soon–but the teenage kids did not. The kids were talking about how annoying it was because anytime they talked about saving money for college or retirement, their parents would tell them that didn’t matter because they’d all be raptured before then. 😉
 
Wasn’t the idea for the rapture based on tbe vision of a Scottish girl in 1830? (methinks 1830 was a year for some false ideas)
 
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Wasn’t the idea for the rapture based on tbe vision of a Scottish girl in 1830? (methinks 1830 was a year for some false ideas)
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So I’ve heard (references anybody???) and seized upon by her pastor, John Nelson Darby.
 
Rapture Theology was developed in 1830 by John Nelson Darby and members of the Plymouth Brethren movement. Proponents of it point to 1Thessalonians 4:16-17 which states, “For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the archangel’s call, 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, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so we shall always be with the Lord” (RSV).

The problems of Rapture Theology include:

1) It teaches a secret coming of Christ which predates his Second Coming. It is during this secret coming that the rapture occurs. But the Bible only describes a first and second coming of Christ (and not a “1.5 Coming”).

2) The rapture is considered an eschatological event, and yet none of the Bible’s eschatological / apocalyptic passages actually describe it. For example, it does not appear in Revelation, and therefore proponents of Rapture Theology have to make excuses such as, “Revelation simply states what will happen in the end times after the rapture.” Although there are a couple of “rapture sounding” passages in the Bible, in order to formulate Rapture Theology in its fullness, one has to make a number of extrapolations beyond the plain words of Scripture.

3) Rapture Theology has never been taught by the Catholic Church nor any of the Eastern Orthodox Churches, nor any of the Oriental Orthodox Churches. Moreover, it was unknown to the Protestant Reformers. A doctrine which did not appear on the scene until the 19th Century can hardly be considered apostolic. If St. Paul actually intended to be teaching about a secret coming of Christ and a rapture of Christians prior to the Second Coming, then why didn’t anyone catch on to this for nearly 1800 years?

4) The basic idea of Rapture Theology is that authentic Christians will not have to suffer the tribulations that will afflict the earth at the end of time. But Jesus taught that his followers would be persecuted and that they are to carry their crosses daily. We see this throughout all of Christian history, and it goes on today. Why should it be any different for the final generation of Christians?
 
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