Rapture vs. Transport — 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.

Transport (BE) or transportation (AE) is the movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. In other words, the action of transport is defined as a particular movement of an organism or thing from a point A (a place in space) to a point B. Modes of transport include air, land (rail and road), water, cable, pipeline, and space.

A feeling of intense pleasure or joy

Take or carry (people or goods) from one place to another by means of a vehicle, aircraft, or ship

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

Overwhelm (someone) with a strong emotion, especially joy

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

A system or means of conveying people or goods from place to place

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

An overwhelmingly strong emotion

Often raptures An expression of ecstatic feeling

To move or carry (goods, for example) from one place to another; convey.

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

To cause to feel strong emotion, especially joy; carry away; enrapture.

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.

To send abroad to a penal colony; deport.

To enrapture.

The act of transporting; conveyance.

Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.

The condition of being transported by emotion; joy or 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".)

A ship or aircraft used to transport troops or military equipment.

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

A vehicle, such as an aircraft, used to transport passengers, mail, or freight.

(obsolete) Rape; ravishment; sexual violation.

The system of transporting passengers or goods in a particular country or area.

(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.

The vehicles, such as buses and trains, used in such a system.

A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.

A deported convict.

To cause to experience great happiness or excitement.

To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.

To experience great happiness or excitement.

(historical) To deport to a penal colony.

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

(figuratively) To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away.

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

An act of transporting; conveyance.

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

The state of being transported by emotion; rapture.

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

A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.)

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.

(Canada) A tractor-trailer.

A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.

The system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region; the vehicles used in such a system.

To transport with excitement; to enrapture.

A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc.

A state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion;

(historical) A deported convict.

A state of elated bliss

To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.

To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish.

To carry away with vehement emotion, as joy, sorrow, complacency, anger, etc.; to ravish with pleasure or ecstasy; as, music transports the soul.

Transportation; carriage; conveyance.

A vessel employed for transporting, especially for carrying soldiers, warlike stores, or provisions, from one place to another, or to convey convicts to their destination; - called also transport ship, transport vessel.

Vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture.

A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.

Something that serves as a means of transportation

An exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes

The commercial enterprise of transporting goods and materials

A state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion;

A mechanism that transport magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder

Move something or somebody around; usually over long distances

Move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body;

Hold spellbound

Transport commercially

Send from one person or place to another;