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The Rapture: Is It in the Bible?

Does the phrase "caught up to meet the Lord in the air" teach a pre-tribulation rapture, or is this a modern reading?

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The Rapture: Is It in the Bible?
The Passage

The Question

Does the phrase "caught up to meet the Lord in the air" teach a pre-tribulation rapture, or is this a modern reading?

Before You Read
Scholarly Perspectives
conservativeCatholic Answers

divine essence once we enter into heaven so appealing to this passage would not undermine purgatory because the question still remains is there a prior state of existence for a...

theologicalMike Licona

body at the inception of the general resurrection and then three verses later verse 23 he says how we're going to be raised when we're going to be raised he says but each in its...

historicalReasonable Faith

ristians at that time into the new kingdom which Christ is bringing now these angels who accompany Christ when he comes again will also accompany the souls of the dead in Christ...

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