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What Is the Rapture? A Verse by Verse Study That Starts With the Word
Most people have an opinion about the Rapture. Very few have actually studied every passage.
Some were taught it in church and never questioned it. Others were told it was invented by a 19th century preacher named John Nelson Darby and never looked into it for themselves. And most believers somewhere in the middle have a vague hope that Jesus is coming back but could not tell you chapter and verse why they believe what they believe.
A brand new 7-day Bible study series just launched — The Rapture: What the Bible Really Says — and it starts by answering the most fundamental question of all.
Is the Rapture actually in the Bible?
The short answer is yes. And the proof is stronger than most people realize.
The Word Behind the Word
The English word “rapture” does not appear in most Bible translations. But the Greek word harpazo — meaning caught up, seized, snatched away — appears 13 times in the New Testament. It is the same word used when the Spirit caught Philip away in Acts 8, when Paul was caught up to the third heaven in 2 Corinthians 12, and when the male child is caught up to God in Revelation 12. And the Latin Vulgate translated that word as rapturo in 382 AD — over 1,400 years before Darby was born. The Darby objection collapses the moment you look at the history.
Three Questions Day 1 Answers
Day 1 of the series covers three foundational questions that everything else builds on: Is the Rapture actually in the Bible — and where does the word come from? What does the transformation of our bodies actually look like at the moment it happens? And why is this called the blessed hope — and why does that matter more right now than at any other point in history?
Verse by Verse Through the Key Passages
The study walks verse by verse through 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18, 1 Corinthians 15:51-53, Philippians 3:20-21, and a trail of Scripture that runs from Genesis 5 all the way to the last prayer in the last chapter of Revelation. Every scripture is from the ESV. Every claim is backed by the Word. This is not a debate series — it is a verse by verse study that lets Scripture speak for itself, and it addresses both believers who have always accepted the Rapture and skeptics who have always pushed back.
Six more days are coming. Day 2 covers the Rapture vs. the Second Coming — two events that most teachers treat as one and that could not be more different. Day 3 tackles the pre-trib, mid-trib, and post-trib debate directly with full scriptural support for every position. Read the first day of our prophecy series on FaithNFreedom.social. If you are just joining the study, you can also explore the full 7-Day Rapture Series from the beginning.
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