Are we taken up into heaven straight after we die?

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October 3, 2010 at 4:56 PM, we wrote this article about the rapture or the soul leaving the body on Bijbelvorsers Webs, the website of the Association for Bible study. Because the ending of the association we reprint the article here so that it might not be lost.

(AVRLE) Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

 

On the pages of the Belgian Christadelphians, there are some articles that many Bibleresearchers or Biblestudents can take under consideration to study.

There is a series published over the so-called Rapture or Taking away or to be caught up.  The term Rapture has become used mainly by the Pentecostals but the last years begins to become more in vogue with other churches as well.

What does such a rapture restrain or what is meant by being taking up or caught up and when is this going to happen?

Many Christians are convinced that their soul after their death will step out of their body and move to some other place, namely either to the purgatory, or straight to the heaven, or in the worst case to hell,  where according to them an eternal torture shall take place.

Firstly one must work out of what the body consists.  Is there a separate unity of a soul?  The soul is namely the life itself.  The conscious being, the breathing.  It is not some spiritual being or other that in our body remains and after the dying off that body leaves it.

Read more about the https://sites.google.com/site/belgianchristadelphians/soul > Soul and find out if there is Life after death.

About Hell and its fire: https://sites.google.com/site/belgianchristadelphians/hellfire > Hellfire.

And compare to the Bible texts mentioned in the articles on the Rapture.

> https://sites.google.com/site/belgianchristadelphians/rapture-exposed >Rapture-exposed

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1.      https://sites.google.com/site/belgianchristadelphians/rapture-exposed/rapture-meaning >Rapture what does it mean?

2.      https://sites.google.com/site/belgianchristadelphians/rapture-exposed/rapture-meaning/admittance-with-christ  >The Rapture or admittance with Christ

3.      https://sites.google.com/site/belgianchristadelphians/rapture-exposed/rapture-meaning/admittance-with-christ/gathering-with-jesus-2 >Gather together with Jesus Christ

4.      https://sites.google.com/site/belgianchristadelphians/rapture-exposed/rapture-meaning/admittance-with-christ/gathering-with-jesus-2/raptured-in-clouds >Raptured in clouds
English: Depiction of a soul being carried to ...

Depiction of a soul being carried to heaven by two angels. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Find an article in Dutch : Nederlandstalig artikel rond dit onderwerp: Vindt er een transfer plaats na de dood?

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Additional reading

  1. The dark side of our earthly existence
  2. Sheol, Sheool, Sjeool, Hades, Hell, Grave, Tomb, Sepulchre
  3. Jewish and Christian traditions of elders
  4. Charles Taze Russell and what he started
  5. Join the debate about the position of fallen angels
  6. Rapture articles
  7. Rapture what does it mean?
  8. The Rapture or admittance with Christ
  9. Gather together with Jesus Christ
  10. Raptured in clouds
  11. Sheol or the grave
  12. Satan or the devil

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Further reading

  1. Rapture: unspoken words and the end of the church age
  2. The Rapture
  3. Rapture of Church
  4. The Rapture Church
  5. The Rapture Is Only For Christians!
  6. The Homeschool Rapture
  7. The Rapture vs. the Second Coming
  8. 16 Sobering Things Every Atheist Should Know
  9. Success 
  10. Tell everyone that I am coming soon!
  11. The Power of the Unseen
  12. The Invisible Worlds
  13. A Last Days Church
  14. Jesus is Coming Again
  15. Transcending Mysticism
  16. Key to Winning Your Battles
  17. 2016: Countdown to Armageddon?
  18. 2017: The day of our God’s vengeance
  19. Verse Of The Day
  20. Date Of Christ’s Return Surprising
  21. Eagerly Waiting for His Coming — from Hebrews 9:28
  22. An Election of Extremes
  23. Reality Check!
  24. Left Behind author Tim LaHaye, passes away
  25. Co-Author of the ‘Left Behind’ Series, Tim LaHaye, Dies at age 90
  26. Christ our Blessed Hope: Looking for His Appearing
  27. The Coming Alien Airlift
  28. The Church is Not Raptured
  29. Sparse Summer Worship Attendance Scares Left Behind Readers
  30. Divine Counterpart Couples
  31. The Rapture Will occur. God said so.
  32. Abundance and Scarcity Energies
  33. Verses of the Day
  34. An Introduction To Laodicea
  35. Caught Up, Yet Not Taken
  36. Daily Bread – Take Heed Unto Ourselves 
  37. Part 10: The Male Child Caught Up to God and to His Throne
  38. Catholic Is The New Protestant
  39. 2 Timothy 4:1-8: A Study of Our Lord’s Appearing; Will We Love His Appearing?
  40. Rapture! Religious Fear Or Reality?
  41. How Methodists Prepare for the Rapture
  42. Oh Yes; He’s Coming

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