'Well no, Evangelicals don't think they have to start chaos on the earth to bring Jesus back.
You're wrong.
The Evangelicals I know do want the apocalypse and act to make it happen, because they will then be saved the easy way.
It is not that they want Jesus back.
They could care less about Jesus.
The want a free ride to heaven without having to die first.
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The
rapture is an
eschatological theological position held by some
Christians, particularly within branches of
American evangelicalism, consisting of an
end-time event when all Christian believers who are alive, along with resurrected believers, will rise "in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air."
[1] The origin of the term extends from
Paul the Apostle's
First Epistle to the Thessalonians in the
Bible, in which he uses the Greek word
harpazo (
Ancient Greek: ἁρπάζω), meaning "to snatch away" or "to seize," and explains that believers in Jesus Christ will be snatched away from earth into the air.
[2]
The idea of a rapture as it is currently defined is not found in historic Christianity, but is a relatively recent doctrine of Evangelical Protestantism. The term is most frequently used among Evangelical Protestant theologians in the
United States.
[3] Rapture has also been used for a mystical union with God or for eternal life in
Heaven.
[4]
This view of eschatology is referred to as
premillennial dispensationalism, which is a form of
futurism.
Differing viewpoints exist about the exact timing of the rapture and whether Christ's return will occur in one event or two.
Pretribulationism distinguishes the rapture from the
second coming of
Jesus Christ mentioned in the
Gospel of Matthew,
2 Thessalonians, and
Revelation. This view holds that the rapture will precede the seven-year
Tribulation, which will culminate in Christ's second coming and be followed by a thousand-year
Messianic Kingdom.
[5][6] This theory grew out of the translations of the
Bible that
John Nelson Darby analyzed in 1833. Pretribulationism is the most widely held view among Christians believing in the rapture today, although this view is disputed within evangelicalism.
[7] Some assert a post-tribulational rapture.
Most
Christian denominations do not subscribe to rapture theology and have a different interpretation of the aerial gathering described in
1 Thessalonians 4.
Catholics,
Eastern Orthodox,
Anglicans,
Episcopalians,
Lutherans,
Presbyterians,
United Methodists, the
United Church of Christ, and most
Reformed Christians do not generally use
rapture as a specific theological term, nor do they generally subscribe to the premillennial dispensational views associated with its use. Instead these groups typically interpret
rapture in the sense of the elect gathering with Christ in
Heaven after his second coming
[8][9][10][11] and reject the idea that a large segment of humanity will be left behind on earth for an extended
tribulation period after the events of
1 Thessalonians 4:17.
[12]
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