The Rapture

The Rapture is a supposed event that states that the followers of Christ would be caught up in the sky to meet with their Savior, and that they would not have to suffer through the tribulations that would befall on the Earth. This ideology originially had two sides. One side stated that Christians would be caught up in the skies prior to the Great Tribulation, while a less-popular theory posits that the Rapture would only occur during the Great Tribulation, and will only happen once Christ returns to the Earth. The idea that the followers of Christ would be bodily taken up into Heaven most likely came from 1 Thessalonians 4:16.