Joy vs. Rapture — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Joy and Rapture
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Joy
The word joy means a feeling of great pleasure and happiness.
Rapture
The rapture is an eschatological theological position held by some Christians, particularly within branches of American evangelicalism, consisting of an end-time event when all Christian believers who are alive, along with resurrected believers, will rise "in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air." The origin of the term extends from Paul the Apostle's First Epistle to the Thessalonians in the Bible, in which he uses the Greek word harpazo (Ancient Greek: ἁρπάζω), meaning "to snatch away" or "to seize," and explains that believers in Jesus Christ will be snatched away from earth into the air.The idea of a rapture as it is currently defined is not found in historic Christianity, but is a relatively recent doctrine of Evangelical Protestantism. The term is most frequently used among Evangelical Protestant theologians in the United States.
Joy
Intense and especially ecstatic or exultant happiness, or an instance of such feeling.
Rapture
A feeling of intense pleasure or joy
Leonora listened with rapture
Joy
An expression of such feeling.
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Rapture
(according to some millenarian teaching) the transporting of believers to heaven at the Second Coming of Christ
Thousands of Christians gathered outside Rochester and other cities, awaiting the Rapture
Joy
A source or an object of joy
Their only child, their pride and joy.
Rapture
(according to some millenarian teaching) transport (a believer) from earth to heaven at the Second Coming of Christ
People will be raptured out of automobiles as they are driving along
Joy
To take great pleasure; rejoice.
Rapture
The state of being transported by a lofty emotion; ecstasy.
Joy
To fill with ecstatic happiness, pleasure, or satisfaction.
Rapture
Often raptures An expression of ecstatic feeling
Raptures of joy.
Joy
To enjoy.
Rapture
The transporting of a person from one place to another, especially to heaven, by supernatural means.
Joy
A feeling of extreme happiness or cheerfulness, especially related to the acquisition or expectation of something good.
A child's joy on Christmas morning
They will be a source of strength and joy in your life.
Rapture
Rapture An event in the eschatology of certain Christian groups in which believers in Christ will be taken up to heaven either prior to or at the Second Coming.
Joy
Anything that causes such a feeling.
The joys and demands of parenthood
Rapture
To enrapture.
Joy
Luck or success; a positive outcome.
Rapture
Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.
Joy
(obsolete) The sign or exhibition of joy; gaiety; merriment; festivity.
Rapture
In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, the event when Jesus returns and gathers the souls of living and deceased believers. (Usually "the rapture".)
Joy
(intransitive) To feel joy, to rejoice.
Rapture
(obsolete) The act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.
Joy
To enjoy.
Rapture
(obsolete) Rape; ravishment; sexual violation.
Joy
To give joy to; to congratulate.
Rapture
(obsolete) The act of carrying, conveying, transporting or sweeping along by force of movement; the force of such movement; the fact of being carried along by such movement.
Joy
To gladden; to make joyful; to exhilarate.
Rapture
A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.
Joy
The passion or emotion excited by the acquisition or expectation of good; pleasurable feelings or emotions caused by success, good fortune, and the like, or by a rational prospect of possessing what we love or desire; gladness; exhilaration of spirits; delight.
Her heavenly form beheld, all wished her joy.
Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.
Who, for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame.
Tears of true joy for his return.
Joy is a delight of the mind, from the consideration of the present or assured approaching possession of a good.
Rapture
To cause to experience great happiness or excitement.
Joy
That which causes joy or happiness.
For ye are our glory and joy.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
Rapture
To experience great happiness or excitement.
Joy
The sign or exhibition of joy; gayety; mirth; merriment; festivity.
Such joy made Una, when her knight she found.
The roofs with joy resound.
Rapture
(transitive) To take (someone) off the Earth and bring (them) to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
Joy
To rejoice; to be glad; to delight; to exult.
I will joy in the God of my salvation.
In whose sight all things joy.
Rapture
To take part in the Rapture; to leave Earth and go to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
Joy
To give joy to; to congratulate.
To joy the friend, or grapple with the foe.
Rapture
(uncommon) To state (something, transitive) or talk (intransitive) rapturously.
Joy
To gladden; to make joyful; to exhilarate.
Neither pleasure's art can joy my spirits.
Rapture
A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with violence.
That 'gainst a rock, or flat, her keel did dashWith headlong rapture.
Joy
To enjoy.
Who might have lived and joyed immortal bliss.
Rapture
The state or condition of being rapt, or carried away from one's self by agreeable excitement; violence of a pleasing passion; extreme joy or pleasure; ecstasy.
Music, when thus applied, raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions; it strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture.
You grow correct that once with rapture writ.
Joy
The emotion of great happiness
Rapture
A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.
Joy
Something or someone that provides pleasure; a source of happiness;
A joy to behold
The pleasure of his company
The new car is a delight
Rapture
To transport with excitement; to enrapture.
Joy
Feel happiness or joy
Rapture
A state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion;
Listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture
Joy
Make glad or happy
Rapture
A state of elated bliss
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