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Rapture is actually a word that has been recycled, so-to-speak, to refer to an event described in the Bible in which Christian believers are alive together with those believers who have died before and have resurrected, are caught up together to meet Christ in the air and be with him forever more in heaven. This is mainly an event described by Paul in his gospel. The rapture is also alluded to by Jesus in the four Gospels that was supposed to have happened “immediately after the tribulation” which happens at the time of Jesus’ second coming.

However:

• Jesus disappeared from the scene before the temple was destroyed,
• Jesus did not return in the clouds;
• Jesus, as the Messiah, did not rebuild the temple,
• and the rapture didn’t happen

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