Mock all you like. The end of this story was already written nearly 2K yrs ago, and Yhwh God has not been wrong yet, so no sound reason to expect that to change now.
No sir, not hardly! They maybe the who gave it the name"rapture", from the Latin "raparer" (to snatch out, or away), but the 1st mention of it occurred in Genesis, when Enoch, who walked with Yhwh God, and "then he was not"; no body was found , Yhwh took him. The next mention is in Kings, with the transfer of prophetic duties from Elijah to Elisha, the latter having witnessed his mentors snatching away, by what he described as the "chariot of fire", and only Rooney's mantle remained. The next Person to mention it is Yeshua, in His parables, and after Him his apostles, particularly Paul, in many of his letters to the churches. ALL of that predated your 19th century scholars by a solid 18 centuries, at the minimum. Quoheleth got it right when he penned the statement " there is nothing new under the sun", because that concept was already old when he walked the Earth!
Ok, The Rapture. Thanks.
Mock all you like. The end of this story was already written nearly 2K yrs ago, and Yhwh God has not been wrong yet, so no sound reason to expect that to change now.
The Rapture - an invention of C.I. Scofield, and Nelson Darby.
Good luck to you.
No sir, not hardly! They maybe the who gave it the name"rapture", from the Latin "raparer" (to snatch out, or away), but the 1st mention of it occurred in Genesis, when Enoch, who walked with Yhwh God, and "then he was not"; no body was found , Yhwh took him. The next mention is in Kings, with the transfer of prophetic duties from Elijah to Elisha, the latter having witnessed his mentors snatching away, by what he described as the "chariot of fire", and only Rooney's mantle remained. The next Person to mention it is Yeshua, in His parables, and after Him his apostles, particularly Paul, in many of his letters to the churches. ALL of that predated your 19th century scholars by a solid 18 centuries, at the minimum. Quoheleth got it right when he penned the statement " there is nothing new under the sun", because that concept was already old when he walked the Earth!