The Rapture Tests
1. What is the Rapture referred to as in the Bible? The Catching Away, or the Day of Redemption. It is also called the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together unto him.
2. Who are the “our” mentioned in 2 Thessalonians 2:1? They are both the dead in Christ and those believers in him who are alive and remain unto his coming.
3. Where will our gathering together unto him be located according to 1 Timothy 4:17? in the clouds.
4. What did Paul call the catching Away, or Rapture in 1 Corinthians 15:51? It was a mystery
5. Where is the word Rapture found in the Bible? The word Rapture is not found in the Bible.
6. What other words are used in Bible to explain the Rapture or Catching Away? The Blessed Hope:
7. What does the blessed hope have to do with? Our departure from the earth,
8. What does the glorious appearing have to do with? Our arrival in the air to meet our Saviour.
9. What is another term that is used in place of the word rapture in 2 Timothy 2:18? The Resurrection
10. What is another term used to describe the Rapture/Catching Away in Ephesians 4:30? The Day of Redemption
11. What did Christ redeem us from according to Galatians 3:13? From the curse of the law
12.How? He was made a curse for us
13. According to Ephesians 1:13 how long is a person sealed for? Until the redemption of the purchased possession.
14. What is the earnest of our inheritance? The down payment of our inheritance
15. Is there only one Rapture/Catching Away in the Bible, or are there more? There are numerous raptures in the Bible but there is only one rapture associated with the Body of Christ
16. What are the two primary places that the Rapture is mentioned? in 1 Corinthians 15:51-60 and 1 Thessalonians 4:13-5:11,
17.What group of people does scripture record as getting redeemed from the earth in the Book of the Revelation? The 144,000 witnesses
18. Does the Rapture begin the Tribulation Period? No
19.Does the Rapture end the Dispensation of Grace? Yes
20. Who else gets caught up to heaven in Revelation 11:8-12? The two witnesses
21. When did Paul receive the doctrine of the Catching Away? While he was at Corinth on his second Missionary journey.
22. When does the Rapture or Catching Away occur? At the end of the dispensation of grace.
23. Is it the end of the body of Christ at the rapture? Explain. No, its really just the beginning because then the Body of Christ will be able to do what it was formed to do from that moment on.
24. What has to occur before the Mystery of Iniquity is revealed? The Rapture
25. Is the day of Christ and the day of the Lord the same thing? No
26. Where is the only place that the day of Christ appears? In Pauline literature
27. What is the Greek word for falling away? Apostacia
28. Just who is the “he” that is hindering/letting the man of sin from being revealed? the Body of Christ
29.What is the Body of Christ called in Ephesians 2:15? The one new man.
30.Why does the Rapture happen? The Body of Christ has a heavenly destiny, and we must be translated into the heavenly places to begin our eternal ministry of glorifying God in eternity.
31. How do we know the Rapture is imminent and can occur at any moment from something Paul said in 1 Thessalonians 4:15 . Paul included himself in the Rapture believing that it may come in his life time,
32.How does the Rapture happen? 16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God:
33. Who comes for Israel after the Tribulation ends in Matthew 24:29? The angels gather them from the four winds of the earth
34. Who comes for the Body of Christ? The Lord himself.
35. Why does the Lord descend with a shout and with the Trump of God? The shout is for the dead in Christ. The Trump of God is for us who are alive and remain unto his coming.
36. Who will be Raptured according to 1 Thessalonians 4? Those who have believed that Jesus died and rose again.
37. What will happen to our body? Our earthly bodies will be dissolved and replaced with an heavenly one that is eternal.
38. What will those who are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord not experience? The sting of death
39. Why? Because they will be translated/gathered together unto the Lord in the air.
40. What happens right after the Catching Away/Rapture? We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
41. Where do the bodies in Matthew 24, Luke 17, and Revelation 19 get caught away to? Where the eagles are gathered together.
