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5 lip 2024 · The rapture of the church is the event in which God “snatches away” all believers from the earth in order to make way for His righteous judgment to be poured out on the earth. The rapture is described primarily in 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18 and 1 Corinthians 15:50–54.
When they started to play bagpipes and flutes, the Saint let out a cry of joy and flew a considerable distance through the air to the high altar. He remained in his rapture about a quarter of an hour. Although he was in the air leaning over several lighted candles, his garments were not affected.
14 lut 2022 · Out of that night in the Bronx came the song “Rapture,” off the band’s fifth album Autoamerican in 1980. Reaching No. 1 on the charts, “Rapture” was also the first official music video ...
Notably, Paul makes it clear that this meeting is "in the air," and not on the literal surface of the earth. This is why the rapture is considered to be a separate event from the second coming of Christ.
25 lut 2014 · So the question I’m posing is this: should we use songs or lines of songs that refer to the Rapture? Does it matter how it’s mentioned, or what the author might have intended? Some of our best-loved, most oft-sung hymns make reference to it; let’s look at a couple examples.
4 paź 2019 · In the Rapture, believers meet the Lord in the air: For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
19 paź 2018 · Informed Belief. Paul introduces this new topic by stating, “we do not want you to be uninformed,” in order to accentuate the following discussion (cf. 1 Cor. 10:1; also Rom. 1:13; 11:25; 1 Cor. 12:1; 2 Cor. 1:8). Paul desires the Thessalonians to be informed appropriately about “those who are asleep.”
