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Rejecting Rapturemania: Making Sense of the Second Coming is unavailable, but you can change that!

Understand what the Rapture is, where it came from, and what the Orthodox Church teaches—and has always taught—about it. Orthodox priest John A. Peck explores questions such as: What is the Rapture? Is it in the Bible? Who invented it and when? What does Jesus say about taking his believers out of the world? Who does the Bible say will be persecuted? What do the Fathers say about the Rapture?...

places, but suffice it to say that no one, anywhere in history, ever believed in the Rapture until nearly the 19th century. It does seem strange that no one ever seems to ask the obvious question—if the Rapture is so blatantly a part of the Bible, then why did no one figure it out for over 1,800 years? Almost everyone you will meet who believes in the Rapture has no idea when or where it started, only that all their Christian friends, and their pastors, seem to believe it. There’s a lot of hype about it,