I don't mean in the strict sense. I mean in the sense that Christ will come save us from out troubles. From what I understand the idea of a rapture went along with the idea of dispsensationalism and that Christ comes to "Rapture" up his people just before a 7 year tribulation where God dishes out his wrath of mankind. I heard that it was big with the poor and uneducated who needed some sort of "liberation" from their troubles and this idea along with the baptism of the Holy Ghost was very appealing, it got their minds off of their problems and onto a way out of them by way of escaping earth via the rapture.

Everyone I know who believes in the rapture usually precedes it by talking about all their problems about too many kids not enough money, too much debt, too much suffering of any kind and then say, "Well hopefully the RAPTURE will take place and I won't have to worry about any of this any more!"

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Erick Bohndorf, Covenant Baptist Church, KS
http://qayaqtraveler.blogspot.com/
The question for us today is, will we be like the majority of Israel and continue to look in fear at the giants in the land and urge our fellow Christians to be "realistic," or will we be like Joshua and Caleb and faithfully follow our king, trusting to fulfill every one of his promises completely?