Rapture vs. Rhapsody — What's the Difference?

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.

Exalted or excessively enthusiastic expression of feeling in speech or writing.

A feeling of intense pleasure or joy

A literary work written in an impassioned or exalted style.

(according to some millenarian teaching) the transporting of believers to heaven at the Second Coming of Christ

A state of elated bliss; ecstasy.

(according to some millenarian teaching) transport (a believer) from earth to heaven at the Second Coming of Christ

(Music) A usually instrumental composition of irregular form that often incorporates improvisation.

The state of being transported by a lofty emotion; ecstasy.

An ancient Greek epic poem or a portion of one suitable for uninterrupted recitation.

Often raptures An expression of ecstatic feeling

An epic poem, or part of one, suitable for uninterrupted recitation.

The transporting of a person from one place to another, especially to heaven, by supernatural means.

(by extension)

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.

An exaggeratedly enthusiastic or exalted expression of feeling in speech or writing.

To enrapture.

(music) An instrumental composition of irregular form, often incorporating improvisation.

Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.

(archaic) A random collection or medley; a miscellany; also, a confused string of stories, words, etc.

In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, the event when Jesus returns and gathers the souls of living and deceased believers. (Usually "the rapture".)

A literary composition consisting of miscellaneous works.

(obsolete) The act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.

Synonym of rhapsodize

(obsolete) Rape; ravishment; sexual violation.

(transitive)

(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.

(intransitive) Followed by about, on, over, or upon: to speak with exaggerated or rapturous enthusiasm.

A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.

A recitation or song of a rhapsodist; a portion of an epic poem adapted for recitation, or usually recited, at one time; hence, a division of the Iliad or the Odyssey; - called also a book.

To cause to experience great happiness or excitement.

A disconnected series of sentences or statements composed under excitement, and without dependence or natural connection; rambling composition.

To experience great happiness or excitement.

A composition irregular in form, like an improvisation; as, Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsodies."

(transitive) To take (someone) off the Earth and bring (them) to Heaven as part of the Rapture.

An epic poem adapted for recitation

To take part in the Rapture; to leave Earth and go to Heaven as part of the Rapture.

(uncommon) To state (something, transitive) or talk (intransitive) rapturously.

A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with violence.

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.

A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.

To transport with excitement; to enrapture.

A state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion;

A state of elated bliss