The Rapture is NOT in the Bible

Skye Jethani
Jan 25, 2024
1 min read

Everyone knows the rapture is in the Bible. Or, is it? Despite it being popularized and commercialized by Christian books, movies and even Hollywood, Skye Jethani makes the case that the Rapture is not actually in the Bible - no, not even in Revelation!

Skye looks at the passages often used to support the Rapture, Matthew 24 and 1 Thessalonians 4 and unpacks what they actually reveal about Christ’s return and why it's time for the Rapture to be left behind.

8 Comments

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Jan 11

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Mansi Kalra

Nov 05, 2024

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Jan 31, 2024

I enjoyed watching. I also like Rev20 ,4,5, 6.

Hank Hayes

Jan 31, 2024

You have just witnessed a man twisting scripture to fit his theology. He didn't even abide by his own point to "read the scripture within it's context."

Here he quotes Matt 24:40-41 to prove those "raptured or taken away" are those taken by God's wrath and those "left behind" are God's people (like Noah).

However, what does Matt. 24:30-31 say about those "taken"?

”“Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And then all the peoples of the earth will mourn when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory. And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect…

Timothy Wood

Aug 01

Replying to

You may have scored an exegetical point here, Hank, though I'm not yet convinced that "taken" means "raptured" (in the sense of disappearing from the earth and floating into the sky as disembodied spirits or some variant of this meaning) in the passages you mentioned. Those who grew up believing in rapture are, generally speaking, unknowingly steeped within Plato's dualistic worldview, which was passed on to (or "converted by") the Christian world through Augustine, who then influenced Calvin.

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annmdelange

Jan 25, 2024

Wish the terrified little girl, sitting in a pew in a rural Iowa church 60 years ago knew this 😢