Rapture Ready's stated purposes include warning those non-Christians who, according to the Pre-tribulation system of Evangelical Christian eschatology, will be left behind after the rapture to repent of their sins and turn to God.

The theology of dispensationalism consists of a distinctive eschatological " end times " perspective, as all dispensationalists hold to premillennialism and most hold to a pretribulation rapture.

The doctrines of achievable personal holiness, attainable universal salvation, the true spiritual unity of all baptized persons, living and dead, in the ' Body of Christ ', the possibility of rapture without dying, and the necessity of the fourfold ministry directed by Apostles for perfecting the Church as a whole, formed the cornerstones of the theology.

* Rasa ( theology ), a concept of taste or emotional rapture related to Krishna devotion

One of these springs was upon the Muses ' Mount Helicon, the Hippocrene (" horse spring "), opened, Antoninus Liberalis suggested, at the behest of Poseidon to prevent the mountain swelling with rapture at the song of the Muses ; another was at Troezen.

Rudolf loved collecting paintings, and was often reported to sit and stare in rapture at a new work for hours on end.

It was the age in which the artist was seen as hero, to be worshipped and adulated with rapture.

The Act II duet for Sergeant Meryll and Dame Carruthers, " Rapture, rapture ", was often cut in 20th-century D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company performances, apparently because it was thought to detract from the serious tone of the work.

A passage often quoted ( apart from the context ) in one of Calvin's letters ( January 1, 1552 ) has been viewed as a rapture of amicable intercourse ; but, while more than once uneasy apprehensions arose in Calvin's mind, there was no breach of correspondence or of kindliness.

Although he was at least sixty-five years of age at this period, his poetic faculty displayed itself with more than usual warmth and lustre in the glowing series of elegies, styled Eridanus, which he poured forth to commemorate the rapture of this union.

She was nicknamed " Amparo Arrebato " ( Arrebato is Spanish for " rapture " or " fury ") for her strong and furious way of dancing capable of rousing strong sentiments both in dancers and spectators.

It was Parham's desire for assurance that he would be included in the rapture that led him to search for uniform evidence of Spirit baptism.

" Rocking " was also used to describe the spiritual rapture felt by worshippers at certain religious events, and to refer to the rhythm often found in the accompanying music.

What Armstrong promised was not a Christian evangelical rapture of spirit beings, but a rescue of human beings living in a physical world into which Jesus would return as world dictator, for the good of humanity.

Unfortunately, this was sometimes used by later adversaries to disable him ( in rapture ) while he was attacking them.

Sill was heavily influenced by Bach's metric forms and suites, while lyrically her work drew substantially on Christian themes of rapture and redemption.

As the messenger, they believe he was sent to lead the Bride ( the true Church ) and to prepare them for the pre-tribulation rapture.

Despite his losses, Bruce was determined to start anew, going to New Hope church that night and meeting Loretta and a few other members who had also been left behind he found his former pastor's video made to be played after the rapture.

There will be a rapture of the Gentile church followed by a great tribulation of seven ( or three-and-a-half ) years ' duration during which Antichrist will arise and Armageddon will occur.

Let Marcion then exhibit, as gifts of his god, some prophets, such as have not spoken by human sense, but with the Spirit of God, such as have both predicted things to come, and have made manifest the secrets of the heart ; let him produce a psalm, a vision, a prayer -- only let it be by the Spirit, in an ecstasy, that is, in a rapture, whenever an interpretation of tongues has occurred to him ; let him show to me also, that any woman of boastful tongue in his community has ever prophesied from amongst those specially holy sisters of his.

So it is, while making his way back to Arthur ’ s court, Sir Galahad is visited by Joseph of Arimathea, and thus experiences such glorious rapture that he makes his request to die.

State champion in 1973, still with Pelé, and in 1978, driven by the amazing Pita Boys Town, Juary, João Paulo and Nilton Batata, the Santos of the 1970s were no longer just appreciated for the refinement of their football and became a symbol of passion and rapture.

This is used as a metaphor for the changes brought about by her womanhood: being herself in love, her newfound awareness of the associated sense of rapture enables her to empathize with the hapless bird ( as a younger girl she would have been simply excited by the prospect of a fine hunting trophy ).

It also widely holds to the pretribulational return of Christ, which believes that Jesus will return to take up Christians into heaven by means of a rapture immediately before a seven year worldwide Tribulation.

In addition to his responsibilities at the seminary, Walvoord earned a reputation as one of the most influential dispensational theologians of the twentieth century and played a prominent role in advocating a rapture of Christians from the earth prior to a time of great tribulation, followed by a literal thousand-year millennial reign of Christ, and a renewed focus of God on the nation of Israel as distinct from the church.

# The rapture of the Church will be followed by the visible return of Christ and his reign on earth for a thousand years.

In addition, he stated that his deceased followers would be taken by the vessel as well, a belief that resembled the Christian pretribulation rapture doctrine.

" The revelations of some holy women canonized by the Apostolic See whose saying and writings in rapture and derived from rapture are filled with errors.

* A kind of rapture / Robert Bergman ; introduction by Toni Morrison ; afterword by Meyer Schapiro.

It is preceded by the establishment of mindfulness ( sati ) and leads to energy ( viriya ), rapture ( piti ), tranquillity ( passaddhi ), concentration ( samadhi ) and equanimity ( upekkha ).

With real rapture I think of those origins of mine and this whole nexus of destiny, through which the oldest memories of the human race stand side by side with the latest developments ...

At the conference Darby publicly described his ecclesiological and eschatological views, including the pretribulation rapture.

Crawford Gribben has shown that there were successful rapture fiction novels as early as 1913, with some earlier works identified as dating from 1905.

In her review in the New York Times, Janet Maslin said, " As Holy Smoke moves from its early mix of rapture and humor into more serious, confrontational stage, it runs into trouble.

As such, it compared end-time prophecies in the Bible with then-current events in an attempt to broadly predict future scenarios leading to the rapture of believers before the tribulation and Second Coming of Christ to establish his thousand-year ( i. e. millennial ) Kingdom on Earth.

Two days after the supposed rapture didn't happen, A Bible Answer ( a Bible teaching ministry ) has offered to buy 66 full-powered radio stations from Family Radio founder Harold Camping in an effort to get him to resign from preaching such false doctrine.

Jan Luyken's illustration of the rapture described in Matthew 24: 40, as found in the Bowyer Bible.

He ran into the rapture of the depths.

I'm not pleading for the heart that leaps up when it beholds a rainbow in the sky, or for the heart that with rapture fills and dances with the daffodils.

Neither of them got very far beyond a sort of entranced rapture at his own creativity.

Christian eschatology is concerned with death, an intermediate state, Heaven, Hell, the Second Coming of Christ, the resurrection of the dead, a rapture, a tribulation, the Millennium, end of the world, the last judgment, a new heaven and a new earth, and the ultimate consummation of all of God's purposes.

There are 10 life states of any life: Hell, hunger, anger, animality, rapture, humanity, learning, realization, bodhisatva and buddhahood.

At this time, there will be a resurrection of the people of God who have died, and a rapture of the people of God who are still living, and they will meet Christ at his coming.

Christian eschatology is concerned with death, an intermediate state, Heaven, hell, the return of Jesus, the resurrection of the dead, for several evangelical denominations, a rapture, a great tribulation, the Millennium, end of the world, the last judgment, a new heaven and a new earth ( the World to Come ), and the ultimate consummation of all of God's purposes.

Along with some other rapture fiction novels, the Left Behind series demonstrates a specific understanding of the Gospel and the Christian life, one with which many have taken issue theologically.

Many, if not the majority, of Pentecostals are premillennial dispensationalists believing in a pretribulation rapture.

'", but the modernists were in rapture.

Those who become Christians after the rapture will live through ( or perish during ) the Tribulation.

* Seventh Trumpet Tribulationists believe the rapture will occur during the tribulation, halfway through or after, but before the seven bowls of the wrath of God.

Posttribulationists argue that the seventh trumpet mentioned in Revelation is also the last trumpet mentioned in 1 Corinthians 15: 52, and that there is a strong correlation between the events mentioned in Isaiah 27: 13, Matthew 24: 29-31, and 1 Thessalonians 4: 16-thus creating a strong parallel, proving that the rapture occurs after the tribulation.

Therefore, Posttribulationists see the rapture happening during the seventh trumpet, which would only mean that the rapture can never happen before the tribulation-according to this view.

The idea of a post-tribulation rapture can also be read into 2 Peter 3: 10-13 where Christ's return is equated with the " elements being melted " and " the earth also and the works therein shall be burned up.

In such cases, external influences may be the source of consciousness and the person may or may not be responsible for " sharing " in the mind's process ; and / or the events which occur, such as visions and auditory stimuli, may endure and be repeated often over hours, days, months or years — and the afflicted person may believe themselves to be in a state of rapture and / or possession.

Denominations such as Roman Catholics, Orthodox Christians, Lutheran Christians, and Reformed Christians believe in a rapture only in the sense of a general final resurrection, when Christ returns a single time.