The Rapture: What People Are Getting Wrong This Week

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Are you ready for kidnapping and turbulence to follow? Because, if certain corners of the online evangelical Christian community are correct, it happens Today (Or maybe tomorrow) Just in time for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish feast of trumpets.

It remains to see that the real believers will meet Jesus in the air this week according to the translation of the new James King of 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17, “The Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ we come up first. Then, we who are alive and will remain caught with them in the air.”

Dramatic, but it is not the end of the world (as they say). While living believers who died in Christ will have left, the unjust will be left on earth to face the consequences. Nicolas Cage played in a 2014 documentary on this subject.

Why do people think that the kidnapping occurs this week?

The basis of this rape-miaia wave seems to be an interview with Joshua Mhlakela, a South African man, on the channel and Podcast Youtube from Centtwinz TV a few months ago. Mr. Joshua said he knew Jesus personally and had a dream in 2018 where the Lord said to him: “There will be no 2026 World Cup.” Later, Jesus appeared bodily before him and said: “On September 23 and 24, 2025, I will come to take my church.” Seven years of tribulation will follow (hence the cancellation of the World Cup), after that, according to Mr. Joshua, Jesus will return to earth, probably to face the pagans.

The prediction of Mr. Joshua has gained popularity among certain evangelical Christians, and believers began to distribute the date on social networks, in particular under the tiktok #RAPTOK and # RAPTURE2025 labels, where people offered their reflections on the issue, provided questionable evidence to save the date, trying to prepare for non-believers Fast, and gave practical advice on how to prepare for efforts for catering restaurants, and has given practical advice on how to prepare for catering places, and gave practical Angels. Or at least it seems.

How many Christians are Really Are you preparing for kidnapping this week?

While the interview with Mr. Joshua undoubtedly influenced a few People, the nature of social media make it difficult to determine the number of people who prepare for kidnapping and how much piss. I spent all day watching videos on the theme of kidnapping, and some people seem sincere, but a plot People take satirical photos on an easy target, and there are a ton of people who illustrate the law of Poe, because I really can’t say it.

In the end, I don’t think many people really think that the kidnapping will occur. More people seem to point and laugh than to prepare, so everyone is a little wrong. The established evangelical churches tend to reject the demands of specific dates of the removal when they appear in broader culture, and more important for Christians, there is a Biblical problem with prediction.

If you think you know the day of the removal, you are wrong

If we according to what the Bible says (and why not, right?), Be Mr. Joshua and everyone on Tiktok who predicts that the date of the removal is wrong or the Bible itself is wrong. According to the apostle Mark, when asked when the end of time begins, Jesus said: “About this day or this hour, nobody knows it, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.” He has not made an exception for people on Tiktok.

Mark’s compatriot, Matthew, concluded, writing: “Look at, because you don’t know what time your Lord comes” in Matthew 24:42. “If the master of the house had known what time the thief would come, he would have looked at and would not have allowed his house to be broken. There are also ready, because the son of the man arrives at an hour when you do not expect,” continues Matthew.

So if you to wait for The removal will not happen; It is a self-defective prophecy. And even if you are not willing to accept the Bible as the Word of God itself, the kidnapping seems unlikely according to past predictions.

So many ravings, so little time

Dr. Joshua and the inhabitants of Rapuretok are not the first to predict the end of time, and even if I cannot say with certainty, they will probably not be the last. Hippolyte of Rome predicted the end of the world in 500 AD. The German monk Michael Stifel predicted on October 19, 1533 would be the last day. The preacher Baptiste William Miller predicted that the abduction would take place on October 22, 1844, leaving between 50,000 and 100,000 millerites extremely Disillusioned on October 23. More recent time predictors, none have been as influential as Harold Camping.

Harold Camping: King of the Biblical Apocalypse

Harold Camping, engineer and broadcaster, is probably the most prominent modern predictor for the end of the world. He founded Family Radio in 1958 and transformed it into a broadcasting of Christian media on more than 150 American markets across the country. Then, in the early 1990s, the campsite became convinced that the kidnapping would soon be about us. Using its own brand of biblical numerology, the campsite calculated on the last day and published it in its 1992 book, 1994?. The date: September 6, 1994.

When the world has stubbornly refused to explode in the mid -1990s, the campsite recalculated. The real date, he said, was May 21, 2011. “The campsite was 100%sure,” said Dr. Charles Sarno, professor of sociology at the Dominican University of California and a speaker in Berkeley. “He said:” The Bible guarantees it “and what better guarantee you want?”

In the months preceded on May 21, the campsite launched an enormous advertising push: display panels, endless radio emissions, even VR wrapped with grip warnings. It worked. “On May 20, the most popular Google research in English was” May 21 “, ABC News and other major networks were reported, the BBC covered it; it therefore obtained an almost global traction,” said Sarno.

May 21 came and came, leaving the campsite on the calls of confused listeners in his radio program to ask him why he was wrong. The campsite finally moved the apocalypse until October 21, 2011, but it also has no Castile either, and shortly after, it suffered a debilitating stroke and has faded from public view, letting its subordinates compete for the control of the remains of its media empire.

Why do people believe at the end of the world?

We will not know it with certainty later in the week, but you use mathematics, history or the Bible as a guide, you probably don’t need to cancel your weekend plans. However, the world really is coming to an end – your world, anyway – and it will probably end with you in a hospital bed instead of flying to heaven to meet Jesus.

If I could swallow it, maybe I would also believe in rapture. The end of the world’s predictions offer a certainty, a drama, the joy of having secret knowledge and the possibility of paradise without dying, so I do not regret Tiktok’s Domsday-Stans. I feel bad for them, however, because time will pass, and life, un practically, will continue to cring, leaving them to try to explain why they are always here with the rest of us.

Unless they are right. In this case, do not send me an email; I will be standing in clouds.