What is the Rapture?

Yes, God will save His people from the evil of the end times.

The Bible does not use the word "rapture." That is the word we give to the events that the Bible says will happen before the world ends. The Rapture is when God will take all of the people who have trusted in Jesus as their Savior to be with Him in heaven. Most Christians believe God will do this before a big war—bigger than any war that has ever been—begins on the earth. Some Christians think that the Rapture will happen during the war, or at the end of it. After this war, God will judge the earth. Satan's end will come and sin will end, too.

When the Rapture happens, God will take the Christians who have died and the Christians who are still alive and bring them up to heaven, where they will get new bodies that will be beautiful and perfect. Then we will never be sad or sick again. We won't sin ever again. We will be so happy, and we will enjoy being with God forever. The Rapture will happen so quickly that it will be faster than blinking your eye!

Bible Truth

• "For the Lord Himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever" (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17).
  
  
• Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed - in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed" (1 Corinthians 15:51-52).

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