In 2003, prophecy author Terry James joined the Rapture Ready staff.

*" Jewel ", song by Bradley Joseph on the 1997 album Rapture

* " The Passage ", a song by Bradley Joseph from the 1997 album Rapture

The Rapture is used in at least two senses in modern traditions of Christian eschatology: in pre-tribulationist views, in which a group of people will be " left behind ", and as a synonym for the final resurrection generally.

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.

The group gained prominence for its 2001 single " Rapture ", which reached number two on the UK Singles Chart and Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart.

Following the success of " Rapture ", iiO released several singles and the studio album Poetica in 2005.

Their first release was the 2001 single " Rapture ", a song Ali wrote in 30 minutes based on a relationship with an Australian man she met in a nightclub.

", the 2007 remix album Reconstruction Time: The Best of iiO Remixed, and the 2008 compilation Rapture Reconstruction: Platinum Edition.

* " The Gallery ", a song on the album Rapture ( Bradley Joseph album )

", and " The Worst Hangover Ever " by The Offspring, " House Of Jealous Lovers " by The Rapture, " Junebug " by The B-52s, " Hair of the Dog " by Nazareth, " Never Been Any Reason " by Head East, " Oowatanite "" by April Wine, Dance the Night Away " by Van Halen, " I'm a Man " by Chicago, " We're An American Band " by Grand Funk Railroad, " Can I Play With Madness " by Iron Maiden ", " A Hard Day's Night ", " Drive My Car ", I Need You ( middle eight ) & Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey by The Beatles, " You Spin Me Round ( Like A Record )" by Dead or Alive, " Never As Good As The First Time " by Sade, " Photograph " and " Rock of Ages " by Def Leppard, " Good Times, Bad Times " by Led Zeppelin, and " Birds of a Feather " by Tim Curry.

* " Storyteller ", a song on Bradley Joseph's 1997 album Rapture

Often deriding the Singularity as " the Rapture of the Nerds ", some critics argue that Singularitarianism is one of many new religious movements promising salvation in a near-future technological utopia.

Other notable cast members included Charlie Adler, who had already had a lengthy voice-over career, as the central villain Eric Raymond, the late Vicki Sue Robinson, famous for the 1970s discothèque-oriented hit " Turn the Beat Around ", who provided the singing voices of both Rapture and Minx, and Ari Gold, pop singer and songwriter, who provided the singing voice for Ba Nee.

* " One ", by Rapture Ruckus from Live at Worlds End

*" MTV ", a song by rock band Deep Purple from the Tour Edition of Rapture of the Deep

In the wake of the success of " House of Jealous Lovers ", The Rapture opened for the Sex Pistols in a soccer stadium in England, and underwent a large major bidding war eventually signing with Vertigo Records out of the UK and Strummer Records ( a Gary Gersh Label ) both owned by Universal Music.

In 1963, he collaborated with Harold Adamson in writing songs for the movie The Incredible Mr. Limpet, which came out in 1964, and such songs as " I Wish I Were a Fish ", " Be Careful How You Wish " and " Deep Rapture " enhanced his fame.

* " Rapture ", song by Laura Veirs from her 2004 album Carbon Glacier

* " The Rapture ", song on Senses Fail's 2006 album Still Searching

", he stated that certain Biblical passages pointed unquestionably to May 21, 2011 as the date of " Rapture ", and pointed to October 21, 2011 as the end of the world.

Among dispensational premillennialists writers, there are those who believe that Christians will be supernaturally summoned to Heaven by Jesus in an event called the Rapture, which occurs before the biblical " Great Tribulation " prophesied in Matthew 24-25 ; Mark 13 and Luke 21.

" More recently, Carew's place among the Cavalier Poets has been examined, as have his poetic affinities with Ben Jonson and John Donne ; " A Rapture " has been scrutinized as both biography and fantasy ; the funerary poetry has been studied as a subgenre ; evidence of Carew's views concerning political hierarchy has been found in his occasional verse ; and love and courtship have been probed as themes in the " Celia " poems.

During its period of UBM ownership, a ' youth ' channel was launched to cable and satellite from Anglia's facilities, Rapture TV ; some productions for the ITV network were also shared with Rapture, which was retained by UBM after the sale to Granada, but later closed down and its assets sold.

He has predicted that the Rapture would occur on four different occasions ; first he said it would happen in September 1994, then he revised the date to March 1995.

* Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive (" Clive of India ") was believed to be living as a tenant at Condover Hall when two of his daughters, Margaret (' Margaretta ' in the registers ) and Elizabeth were baptised at Condover Church respectively in 1763 and 1764 ; after the entry of Elizabeth's baptism, coinciding with Clive's last voyage to India, was written a prayer verse: " An Aged Sire's longing Eyes to feast / And fill with Rapture his Clarinda's Breast / From Indostan unto his native shore / With Laurels crown'd may CLIVE as heretofore / Return, Thou King of Heaven, we implore.

Subsequently, a poll was posted on the 2K Games operated Cult of Rapture community website in which visitors could vote on what features they would most like to see in a special edition ; the company stated that developers would take this poll into serious consideration.

On April 23, 2007, the Cult of Rapture website confirmed that the Limited Collector's Edition would include a Big Daddy figurine ( many of which were damaged due to a dropped shipping container ; a replacement initiative is in place ), a " Making Of " DVD, and a soundtrack CD.

At this time, Antiskeptic announced a reunion tour of Australia ; combining club shows with festivals, including headlining performances at Easterfest in Toowoomba ( Queensland ) with P. O. D., Rapture Ruckus and Mercyme in April 2012, and Victoria's Forest Edge Music Festival with Ivoryline in March 2012.

Rapture Ready is mainly written in English ; however, it also contains articles in Spanish, German, French, and Japanese.

In March 2012 the band released a new album, Rapture, which coincided with some more live tour dates ; later in 2012 the band are to play additional tour dates.

* The wholly self-sustained utopian society ' Rapture ' in the computer and Xbox 360 game BioShock is an underwater example of an arcology.

The major issues and events in Christian eschatology are death and the afterlife, Heaven and Hell, the Second Coming of Jesus, the Resurrection of the Dead, the Rapture, the Tribulation, Millennialism, the end of the world, the Last Judgment, and the New Heaven and New Earth of the World to Come.

4: 16-17 The rising of those who are still alive to join the resurrected dead is known as the Rapture.

This passage implies that Paul believed that the return of Jesus, the Resurrection, and the Rapture would happen simultaneously.

Rapture is used in at least two senses, in the sense of pre-tribulation views in which a group of people will be " left behind " and as a synonym for the Resurrection generally.

" 20: 6 Those who are included in the Resurrection and the Rapture are excluded from the final judgment, and are not subject to the second death.

Midtribulationists believe that the Rapture will take place at the halfway point of the seven-year tribulation, i. e. after 3½ years.

If the " last trumpet " of Paul is equated with the last trumpet of Revelation, the Rapture would be in the middle of the Tribulation.

Most futurists are expecting a Rapture of the Church, an Antichrist, a Great Tribulation and a Second coming of Christ in the near future.

It also states that a religious sect can be considered a cult if its beliefs involve a denial of any of the essential Christian teachings such as salvation, the Trinity, Jesus himself as a person, his works and his miracles, his crucifixion, his death, his resurrection, his return, and the Rapture.

Fab 5 Freddy's friendship with Debbie Harry influenced Blondie's single " Rapture " ( Chrysalis, 1981 ), the video of which featured Jean-Michel Basquiat, and offered many their first glimpse of a depiction of elements of graffiti in hip hop culture.

TSR started production on a third adventure module, which was to be assigned the identification code GW5 and had the working title Rapture of the Deep.

However, a ' ghost ' Second Edition GW5 Rapture of the Deep module was produced in 2007-see Gap material below.

Dispensationalists hold that, in an event called the Rapture, Christians will be suddenly removed from earth before or during the Great Tribulation.

The tribulation saints are fictional characters who are converts to Christianity right after the Rapture.

LaHaye and Jenkins cite the influence of Russell S. Doughten, an Iowan film-maker who directed a series of four low-budget but popular feature-length films in the 1970s and 1980s about the Rapture and Second Coming, starting with 1972's A Thief in the Night.

In the popular video game Bioshock, pneumatic tubes are used to transport various items throughout the fictional city of Rapture.

In the futurist view of Christian eschatology, the Tribulation is a relatively short period of time where anyone who chose not to follow God up until the Rapture and was therefore left behind ( according to Pre-Tribulation doctrine, not Mid-or Post-Tribulation teaching ) will experience worldwide hardships, disasters, famine, war, pain, and suffering, which will wipe out more than 75 % of all life on the earth before the Second Coming takes place.

* Pretribulationists believe that all Christians ( dead and alive ) will be taken bodily up to Heaven ( called the Rapture ) before the Tribulation begins.

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

* Midtribulationists believe that the Rapture will occur halfway through the Tribulation, but before the worst part of it occurs.

In pretribulationism and midtribulationism, the Rapture and the Second Coming ( or Greek, parousia ) of Christ are separate events, while in post-tribulationism the two events are identical or simultaneous.