The Rapture is Going Up a Mount Zion

The Rapture is Going Up a Mount Zion

What is the Rapture? Definitely, not the Left Behind Movies. I assure you that is imposing our American Sci-fi mentality into the text. To be in the "air" was to be on top of a mountain. See Exodus 19 and 24. Compare it to 1 Thessalonians 4: 16-18. In the New Covenant believers, have a Moses-like access to God. Let scripture interpret scripture. 1 Thessalonians 4 is fulfilled in Revelation 14 for the living and Revelation 15 for the dead respectively.


Exodus 19:13.... when the trumpet sounds a long blast, they shall come up..... to the mountain

Exodus 19:20 The Lord came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain. And the Lord called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

Exodus 24:1-2 then he said to Moses, " Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and 70 of the elders of Israel, and worship from afar. Moses alone shall come near to the Lord, but the others shall not come near, and the people shall not come up with him."

Exodus 24:9 then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and 70 of the elders of Israel went up.

Exodus 24:12 the Lord said to Moses, come up to me on the mountain and wait there

Exodus 24:13 so Moses rose with his assistant Joshua and Moses went up into the mountain of God

Exodus 24:15-16 then Moses went up on the mountain and the cloud cover the mountain. The glory of the Lord dwelt on Mount Sinai and the cloud covered it six days.

Exodus 24:18 Moses entered the cloud and went up on the mountain and Moses was on the mountain 40 days and 40 nights.


Exodus 32:30 English Standard Version 30 The next day Moses said to the people, “You have sinned a great sin. And now I will go up to the Lord; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”


Luke 9:34 English Standard Version 34 As he was saying these things, a cloud came and overshadowed them, and they were afraid as they entered the cloud.


1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and so we will always be with the Lord.

Judy Fentress-Williams (2010:437) explains how people in the Ancient Near East regarded mountains: “With its head reaching toward the heavens, the mountain or high place is the bridge between earth, the realm of humans, and the heavens, the realm of the gods. As such, a mountain is the place for a divine encounter.”

Judy Fentress-Williams, “Exodus 24:12-18 – Exegetical Perspective,” Feasting on the Word, Year A, Vol. 1 (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2010), 437.




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