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| Q: | I have been to a few Lutheran Church services, and have tried to discuss some things that regard what some call "the rapture" of the Church. All have told me that there is no such thing, and I am very wrong in thinking of such a thing. I have gone to my Bible to search for Scriptures. Can you tell me why the Lutherans dont believe in a rapture and seem to think that Revelation is not completely true, and that some of the other books are inaccurate as well. Please help, I am now thoroughly confused! | ||||||
| A: | The reason we do not believe in a rapture as millennialists teach it (a day before the great tribulation and millennium on which true believers are suddenly taken out of the world) is that the Bible has no such teaching. It does teach that on judgment day believers will be gathered to meet Christ as he comes to judge the world (Mt 24 and 1 Thess 4). This is not a separate day from the last day. Christ is returning only one more time, not three more times as some millennialists teach. No rapture is taught in Revelation. We believe everything in Revelation. Some of it describes real things in symbolic terms as the text itself says. Our views are explained more fully in the question and answer archive and in our commentaries on Revelation. | ||||||
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