Steve Dustcircle 🌹<p>Is the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Rapture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rapture</span></a> in the Sky or on Earth? </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zea4vOxJeTs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=zea4vOxJeTs</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NewTestament" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewTestament</span></a>: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/1Thessalonians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>1Thessalonians</span></a> 4:14–18. While many modern <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Christians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christians</span></a> imagine the "Rapture" as being taken into <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/heaven" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>heaven</span></a> forever, Paul had a very different—and far more cosmic—view. Drawing on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Greek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Greek</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Romanphilosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Romanphilosophy</span></a>, especially <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MiddlePlatonism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MiddlePlatonism</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Stoicism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Stoicism</span></a>, Paul describes spiritual (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pneumatic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pneumatic</span></a>) bodies, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/atmospheric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atmospheric</span></a> levels, and even an invisible, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/divine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>divine</span></a> substance animating <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/creation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>creation</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>religion</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mythology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/plato" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plato</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/myths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>myths</span></a></p>