Rapture* — Tyndale Open Bible Dictionary

Christian term used to denote the ascension (or lifting up) of Christians at the time of Christ’s second coming. This is the noun corresponding to the verb used in 1 Thessalonians 4:17, where those believers who are still alive at the coming of Christ are described as being “caught up” together with their resurrected fellow Christians to meet him “in the air.” (It may be relevant to note that the verb of 1 Thes 4:17 is used in 2 Cor 12:2-3 to denote Paul’s mysterious experience of being “caught up” into the third heaven, or paradise.) Differences of interpretation about the chronology of the rapture at the time of Christ’s second coming in relation to other end-time events has led to the emergence of distinct schools of eschatological thought.

Show passage in OET: TH1 4:17

OET-RV TH1 4:17

17 then we who are still alive will be pulled up into the clouds together with them to meet the master in the air, and from then will always remain with Yahweh.

OET-LV TH1 4:17

17 then we the ones living, which being _remaining together with them, will _be _being _snatched in the_clouds for the_meeting of _the master in the_air, and thus always with the_master we _will _be.

Show passage in OET: CO2 12:2–3

OET-RV CO2 12:2

2 Fourteen years ago I observed a man who was a believer in Messiah who was pulled up to the third heaven. (I didn’t know whether this physically happened or just in the spiritual realm.)

OET-RV CO2 12:3

3 And I know that man (God only knows if it was in the physical or just the spiritual realm)

OET-LV CO2 12:2

2 I _have _known a_man in chosen _one /messiah before fourteen years (whether in the_body not I _have _known, or outside the body not I _have _known, the god has _known), having _been _snatched the such to the_third heaven.

OET-LV CO2 12:3

3 And I _have _known the such a_man (whether in the_body or apart _from the body not I _have _known, the god has _known),

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