Why not just use the word "epairó" since we'll already have our resurrected bodies. Why did Paul use harpazo. Why be rescued when we don't need to. Why "obtain by robbery" when there's nothing to steal.keras said:I have always agreed that at the Return of Jesus, there will be a 'harpazo', a gathering of the Lord's people from around the world, to where He is. In Jerusalem.
The error you rapture believers make, is thinking that is in heaven. There is a precedent for a spiritual transportation between two earth locations; with Philip. Acts 8:39
Acts 1:9 After he said this, he was taken up (epairó) before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.
epairó: to lift up
Original Word: ἐπαίρω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: epairó
Phonetic Spelling: (ep-ahee'-ro)
Short Definition: I raise, lift up
Definition: I raise, lift up.
harpazó: to seize, catch up, snatch away
Original Word: ἁρπάζω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: harpazó
Phonetic Spelling: (har-pad'-zo)
Short Definition: I seize, snatch, obtain by robbery
Definition: I seize, snatch, obtain by robbery.
τινα ἐκ πυρός, proverbial, to rescue from the danger of destruction, Jude 1:23 (Amos 4:11; Zechariah 3:2); τινα,