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The Rapture. Premillennialists often give much attention to the doctrine of the “rapture.”. According to this doctrine, when Christ returns, all of the elect who have died will be raised and transformed into a glorious state, along with the living elect, and then be caught up to be with Christ.
The Catholic understanding of this passage is that those believers who are alive during Christ’s second coming will not experience death, but rather, will be gloriously transformed and join the saints already with Christ. Nowhere in 1 Thessalonians does St. Paul teach a secret coming of Christ.
As for the Rapture, the meaning of 1 Thes 4:15-17 is that at the return of Christ (v.15) and the General Resurrection of the Dead (v.16), those who survive the persecution of the Antichrist will have no advantage in being resurrected over those who died before His Coming [CCC 1001].
14 cze 2020 · The Rapture—the raising of the Church into heaven (1 Thessalonians 4:17)—is the next event on the prophetic calendar. The following four signs suggest the Rapture is near. Many people will claim to be the Messiah and claim to have the answers for a troubled world.
9 gru 2022 · One of the answers that has been formulated to these questions is the Rapture. It is a relatively new idea in the overall context of Christianity, rising to prominence in the 1800s amongst fundamentalist Christians.
7 paź 2015 · What is the rapture, according to Roman Catholicism, then? It is simply the raising of believers, both alive and dead, into the clouds to meet Christ, as part of Christ's second coming. As Thomas Aquinas writes regarding Paul's teaching in 1 Thessalonians 4 :
The Rapture: What do Catholics believe? When many people, Protestant and Catholic alike, think of the end times, they often think of the “rapture,” a kind of “Left Behind” event where, those who are right with God are mysteriously taken up into heaven, and those who are living in sin, remain on Earth during a time of tribulation and chaos.
