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[size=10pt]The Rapture is a prophesied event in Christian eschatology in which living Christians, as well as the bodies of those Christians who have died, are physically taken away from the earth to be with Jesus Christ. Everyone else on earth will be left wondering where the raptured people have disappeared to. According to this interpretation of prophesy, it takes place when Jesus descends from heaven accompanied by the spirits of the aforementioned deceased. The bodies of these saints are joined with their returning spirits in the First Resurrection. The living participants are transformed into immortal bodies, referred to as the resurrection body, like that of Jesus.
There is much disagreement amongst rapture proponents over when the rapture will occur in relation to the Tribulation, a seven-year period preceding the second coming of Christ to the earth, or indeed, if the duration of the Tribulation will be seven years or only a 3 1/2 year period. Some understand the tribulation of Matthew 24 as having already taken place in 70 AD at the destruction of Jerusalem. (see Preterism). Three different views dominate. The first is that it will take place sometime prior (pre-trib) to the Tribulation. The second is that it will take place mid-way (mid-trib) through the Tribulation. The third is that it will take place after (post-trib) the Tribulation, when Christ comes to earth to establish His kingdom, the Kingdom of God, taking over rulership of the world for 1,000 years. (see Millennialism). A fourth view has recently developed, called the Pre-Wrath view.[/size]
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