{"id":46692,"date":"2022-10-01T02:30:18","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/what-about-the-rapture-tomorrow-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T02:30:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:30:18","slug":"what-about-the-rapture-tomorrow-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/what-about-the-rapture-tomorrow-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"What About The Rapture Tomorrow? &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Family Radio folks, located in Oakland, California, tells us regarding the so-called rapture on their website: &#8220;<strong>We learn from the Bible that Holy God plans to rescue about 200 million people (that is about 3% of todays population). On the first day of the Day of Judgment (May 21, 2011) they will be caught up (raptured) into Heaven because God had great mercy for them<\/strong>&#8221; (Note: this statement has since been removed from the Family Radio website).<\/p>\n<p>Folks, the word &#8220;rapture&#8221; is not found in the Scriptures. The term is derived from the Latin &#8220;rapio,&#8221; which means &#8220;to seize&#8221; or &#8220;to snatch.&#8221; It is taken from the Latin translation of the Greek word, harpagesometha (from harpazo&#8211;Strong&#8217;s 726), &#8220;shall be caught up&#8221; (cf. 1 Thessalonians 4:17 KJV).<\/p>\n<p>With this information in mind, the following studies of the Rapture by faithful gospel preachers and teachers are provided:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The &#8220;Left Behind&#8221; Series &#8211; a study of the rapture by Wayne Jackson.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Repudiation of the &#8220;Rapture&#8221; &#8211; a study of the rapture by Dave Miller of Apologetics Press.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;A Study Of The Rapture&#8221; &#8211; a short study of the rapture by Mike Riley.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The Rapture &#8211; A study of the rapture by Keith Sharp.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The bottom line is that the so-called &#8220;Rapture&#8221; is a false teaching promulgated by those who desire to make money from books they have written, preying on gullible people (2 Peter 2:1-3 NLT &#8211; see Coffman commentary).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Family Radio folks, located in Oakland, California, tells us regarding the so-called rapture on their website: &#8220;We learn from the Bible that Holy God plans to rescue about 200 million people (that is about 3% of todays population). On the first day of the Day of Judgment (May 21, 2011) they will be caught &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/what-about-the-rapture-tomorrow-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What About The Rapture Tomorrow? &#8211; Bible study&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}