Do Latter-day Saints Believe in the Rapture?
Since the concept of being caught up at the time of Christ’s second coming is found in the Bible, it is definitely a Latter-day Saint doctrine, though we do not use the term rapture and we do not picture it in the same way. Indeed, Joseph Smith Matthew 1:41-48 reads essentially the same as Matthew 24:37-44 that we read earlier. Several modern revelations also discuss the subject: be faithful until I come, and ye shall be caught up, that where I am ye shall be also (D&C 27:18). And he that liveth in righteousness shall be changed in the twinkling of an eye, and the earth shall pass away so as by fire (D&C 43:32). Wherefore, children shall grow up until they become old; old men shall die; but they shall not sleep in the dust, but they shall be changed in the twinkling of an eye. Wherefore, for this cause preached the apostles unto the world the resurrection of the dead. These things are the things that ye must look for; and, speaking after the manner of the Lord, they are now nigh at han
