Do Jehovah's Witnesses Believe in the Rapture?

[The Librarian]

Sent in again to me....

I answered this question awhile back on jw-archive.org

http://www.jw-archive.org/post/54770896505/dear-librarian-would-it-proper-for-a-christian

 

[James Thomas Rook Jr.]

I believe in Raptors ...

 

[Melinda Mills]

This article is interesting and informative.  

 

*** w15 7/15 pp. 18-19 par. 15 “Your Deliverance Is Getting Near”! ***

15 Does this mean that there will be a “rapture” of the anointed ones? Many in Christendom believe, according to this teaching, that Christians will be bodily caught up from the earth. Then, they expect that Jesus will visibly return to rule the earth. However, the Bible clearly shows that “the sign of the Son of man” will appear in heaven and that Jesus will come “on the clouds of heaven.” (Matt. 24:30) Both of these expressions imply invisibility. Additionally, “flesh and blood cannot inherit God’s Kingdom.” So those who will be taken to heaven will first need to be “changed, in a moment, in the blink of an eye, during the last trumpet.” (Read 1 Corinthians 15:50-53.) Therefore, while we do not use the term “rapture” here because of its wrong connotation, the remaining faithful anointed will be gathered together in an instant of time.

 

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