Reply #15: That is actually a good question for the biblical scholar

[zeemike]

Because it does give a number, and it is 144,000
But the actual rapture as preached and teched by the loonies of course is not in the bible. They pretty much made it all up except for a reference in Revelations that says something like And he will gather his elect from the fore corners of the world and there numbers will be 144,000,12,000 from each of the 12 tribes of Israel.
Those elect will be the ones that come with Jesus in the later days to stop the war that would kill all flesh on the earth, and they will be the ones that help him set up his kingdom that will last a thousand years.
At least that is what the bible says if you actually read it.