Rapture
The Coming Rapture
Although the word "rapture" itself, nor the doctrinal explanation of "rapture" in its strictest sense, is not to be found in the scriptures of either the Hebraic or the New Testaments, this does not invalidate its truth. It is true as well that the idea of the coming even where all the faithful will be physically taken up into the spiritual bosom of Christ is not specifically and literally cited in scripture, either. But the idea of rapture as expressed in the Christian community today amongst the faithful is an idea that is manifest throughout the Holy Bible. As early as the Old Testament, prophetic book of the wild man Ezekiel, in 36:25-28, the Lord says to the prophet, "Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of partial stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances."
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Thus, the rapture is a physical action that is prefigured in the Old Testament, but also the Hebraic scripture makes reference to what will occur during the rapture, that is a cleansing and a removal of the faithful from the world of idols into an equally physically manifest world of heavenly life.
In John 14:2-3, Christ foretells his coming back to the earth after the crucifixion and resurrection of his body, saying that "in my Father's house are many mansions: if [it were] not [so], I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, [there] ye may be also." During the coming rapture to be, Christ will thus, after making proper preparations for those who will be received in his Father's house, accept those who are expected and worthy of his followers into the house of his Heavenly Father. One cannot be entirely certain what hour that will be: "but of that day and hour no one knows,…
