Rapture

The idea of the Rapture—where Jesus secretly removes believers from the earth before tribulation—is a modern teaching developed in the 19th century. Yeshuans teaches that this doctrine is not found in Scripture when properly understood in context.Passages often cited to support the Rapture, such as 1 Thessalonians 4:17 (“caught up in the clouds”), are apocalyptic and covenantal in nature—not literal airlifts. In ancient Jewish thought, meeting someone “in the clouds” was symbolic of greeting a king or divine figure in victory.Yeshuans teaches that these passages describe Christ’s covenantal coming in 70 A.D., when He judged the old system and gathered His faithful. The Rapture is not a future escape plan—it was part of the fulfilled transition to spiritual liberty.