The idea of God translating people from earth to heaven is not limited to the Rapture; such translation took place in the Old Testament, too. The first and most remarkable incident involves Enoch. In Genesis 5:18-24, we learn of a pre-Flood man who was so righteous in his lifestyle that he “walked with God three hundred years…and he was not, for God took him”. Obviously he was translated into the presence of God.
Elijah, the great Hebrew prophet, was also translated by God directly from this earth into heaven, and his disciple Elisha saw him go. Again we have a human being translated, or as the apostle Paul would later describe it, “when this corruptible [body] has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: ‘Death is swallowed up in victory’” 1 Corinthians 15:54
Elijah, the great Hebrew prophet, was also translated by God directly from this earth into heaven, and his disciple Elisha saw him go. Again we have a human being translated, or as the apostle Paul would later describe it, “when this corruptible [body] has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: ‘Death is swallowed up in victory’” 1 Corinthians 15:54