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Is the Rapture in the Bible? The Answer Is Stronger Than Most People Realize
The most common attack on the Rapture is also the easiest one to answer.
“The word rapture isn’t in the Bible.”
That statement is technically true in English. And it is completely misleading.
A brand new 7-day Bible study series just launched — The Rapture: What the Bible Really Says — and Day 1 starts by dismantling the most repeated objection to the doctrine before building the case from Scripture word by word.
Here is what the critics are missing.
The Greek Word That Changes Everything
The Greek word harpazo — translated “caught up” in most English Bibles — appears 13 times in the New Testament. It means to seize, snatch away, or carry off by force. It is always sudden. It is always divine. It is always upward. And Jerome translated it as rapturo in the Latin Vulgate in 382 AD — which is where we get the English word rapture. That is over 1,400 years before John Nelson Darby was born.
The Darby Objection Collapses Under History
The claim that Darby invented the Rapture is not just wrong — it is historically backwards. Ephrem the Syrian wrote about the catching away of believers before tribulation in 373 AD. Irenaeus referenced it in the second century. The doctrine does not belong to Darby. It belongs to Scripture.
What Day 1 Covers
Day 1 of the series walks through every use of harpazo in the New Testament — Acts 8, 2 Corinthians 12, Revelation 12, and 1 Thessalonians 4. It covers the Enoch type in Genesis 5 — the oldest preview of the Rapture in all of Scripture. It gives a full verse by verse breakdown of 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18, what our resurrection bodies will actually look like using Jesus’s post-resurrection appearances as the template, and why this is called the blessed hope and why that anchor matters more right now than at any other moment in history. Every scripture is quoted from the ESV. Every claim is backed by the Word.
This is Day 1 of 7. The series covers the Rapture vs. the Second Coming, the pre-trib mid-trib post-trib debate, who gets raptured, the signs of the season we are in right now, and how to live ready regardless of where you stand on the timing. 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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