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One of the most popular beliefs among some Christians is the idea of a rapture, a sudden and miraculous event in which faithful believers are taken up to heaven before the end of the world. However, this concept is not found anywhere in the Bible, and is based on a misinterpretation of some verses. The word "rapture" comes from the Latin word "rapere", which means "to snatch away". Some people use this word to translate the Greek word "harpazo", which appears in 1 Thessalonians 4:17. In this verse, Paul writes that "we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up in the clouds together with them to meet the Lord in the air". However, Paul is not describing a rapture, but a resurrection. He is talking about the second coming of Christ, when he will raise the dead and transform the living into immortal bodies. Paul is using the imagery of a royal visit, when people would go out of the city to welcome a king and escort him back. Similarly, Christians will go up to meet Christ in the air and then accompany him to the earth. This is not a secret or sudden event, but a glorious and public one. The Bible does not describe a rapture, but a resurrection.
John Nelson Darby is recognized as the father of dispensationalism later made popular in the United States by Cyrus Scofield's Scofield Reference Bible. Charles Henry Mackintosh, 1820–1896, with his popular style spread Darby's teachings to humbler elements in society and may be regarded as the journalist of the Brethren Movement. CHM popularised Darby more than any other Brethren author. As there was no Christian teaching of a “rapture” before Darby began preaching about it in the 1830s, he is sometimes credited with originating the "secret rapture" theory wherein Christ will suddenly remove His bride, the Church, from this world before the judgments of the tribulation. Dispensationalist beliefs about the fate of the Jews and the re-establishment of the Kingdom of Israel put dispensationalists at the forefront of Christian Zionism, because "God is able to graft them in again," and they believe that in His grace he will do so according to their understanding of Old Testament prophecy. They believe that, while the methodologies of God may change, His purposes to bless Israel will never be forgotten, just as He has shown unmerited favour to the Church, He will do so to a remnant of Israel to fulfill all the promises made to the genetic seed of Abraham. I am not a dispensationalist; it is unbiblical and nor do I favour Israel.
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