What is the Rapture? Our modern concept of rapture seems to have little or no connection with an eschatological event. But the word is used properly of that event. Rapture is a state or experience of being carried away. We are enraptured by the beauty of a sunset. Or we say that it is sheer rapture to hear a certain piece of music. We mean we are carried away by the experience. The English word comes from a Latin word, rapio, which means to seize or snatch in relation to an ecstasy of spirit or the