Where is the rapture mentioned in the Bible?
In Revelation 4:1 John is taken in the Spirit to see “those things which must take place after this”, meaning after the Church Age described in Chapters 2 and 3 of Revelation. Revelation 4:1-2 1After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter. 2And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne. John’s translation to the throne in heaven pictures the church at the end of the age. It occurs prior to the opening of the first seal and the appearance of the rider on the white horse (Rev. 6). The ‘come up here’ command heard by John is the same command given to the two witnesses in Revelation 11 when they were translated back to heaven. For more information on the voice and the trump or trumpet, please refer to my paper 24 Elders where I discuss the literal meaning of
In Revelation 4:1 John is taken in the Spirit to see “those things which must take place after this”, meaning after the Church Age described in Chapters 2 and 3 of Revelation. Revelation 4:1-2 1After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter. 2And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne. John’s translation to the throne in heaven pictures the church at the end of the age. It occurs prior to the opening of the first seal and the appearance of the rider on the white horse (Rev. 6). The ‘come up here’ command heard by John is the same command given to the two witnesses in Revelation 11 when they were translated back to heaven. For more information on the voice and the trump or trumpet, please refer to my paper 24 Elders where I discuss the literal meaning of
