The Rapture is the belief that both living and dead believers will ascend into heaven to meet Jesus Christ at the Second Coming. The belief in the Rapture emerged from the anticipation that Jesus would return to redeem all members of his church. The term rapture, however, does not appear in the New Testament.
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