06/18/2025
Series of Stories on Revelation and The Rapture:
Series One: There is no rapture! Those who have ears to hear, listen.
How Did the Rapture Theory Begin?
The modern concept of the Rapture—the sudden catching up of believers before a time of tribulation—has roots dating back to the early 19th century. It began with a prophetic vision by Margaret McDonald in 1830, who described believers being taken away before judgment. This idea was later formalized and popularized by John Nelson Darby, a founder of dispensationalism, who systematized the Rapture as a distinct event separate from Christ’s Second Coming.
So due to a dream that Margaret McDonald had in 1830, churches preach that Christians we will not be here during the Tribulation and most don't even preach Revelations because they feel there is no need to even learn it. Do you know what the world Revelations means? The Unveiling of the Truth. It is also the last chapter in the Bible. I would think, it is the most important chapter to learn knowing it has the unveiling of the truth in it.
The word rapture is not in the bible. If it is in yours it was translated from a Hebrew word where they chose to use the word rapture instead of a word with the correct intended meaning.
First you have to understand we have 2 bodies and our soul is our intellect. A flesh body made from the dirt that returns to the dirt and a spirit body that is eternal unless blotted out. Read 1 Corinthians 15
It talks about both the flesh and the spirit and being changed in the twinkling of an eye. That is not a rapture.
We will "ALL" be transformed the last trump. Not just Christians, but Unbelievers as well... ALL. How can you think this is a rapture of Christians when it says ALL are changed, all transformed? We will all be judged in Spirit bodies. When does judgement come? After Christ comes.
51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
If you want to watch a video to explain more...just ask.