Amber Fry

Hmm... how many more of these false rapture things have to go on before people get that it isn't a thing?

Jessica Andrews David

And we est meat. Our vibe is too low.

Or

It was a rapture of hearts. So many souls heard those shofar. They heard about Charlie Kirk. They heard about the flood in Texas. Turning to Jesus..a great rapture of souls..being reconnected to their source..just occurred. Christ within and without. Selah

Warren Calvin Wall

👏👏👏👏👏👏 Thank you! You saved me all of that typing. Pre tribulation rapture is bunk. Nothing in Scripture supports it. Proponents use individual passages out of context of the full story being told. There is no Tribulation. Christ will return after the Tribulations and establish his kingdom on Earth. The truly faithful, dead and alive, will rise to the skies to greet Him. They are not "Raptured" they will reside in Glory in the Kingdom of Christ on Earth.

Lacey

Thank you! To the ones who spoke up and said that there is no "rapture" because that is not in God's word. We go to church and we hear fabulous teachings of a Rapture, however when we get home we can’t find the word. That is because the Rapture is not in the Bible and does not come from any Bible reference. It comes from the ecstatic utterances of Margaret MacDonald in 1830.

LEADING up to: In Matthew 24:6, Jesus warns that "you will hear of wars and rumors of wars," indicating that such conflicts are part of the signs leading up to the end times.

The false christ comes first to try to draw away even more of God's people before the real Christ, our Yashua, steps foot on the mount. Zechariah 14:4-11 New King James Version 4 And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, Which faces Jerusalem on the east. And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two, From east to west, Making a very large valley; Half of the mountain shall move toward the north And half of it toward the south.

Revelation 20:1-6 New King James Version Satan Bound 1,000 Years 20 Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. 2 He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; 3 and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while.

Brothers and Sisters, these things have not yet come to pass.

Daniel Todd Kamm

"The answer my friend, is blowin' in the wind ...."

I love that song.

I don't think anyone has blown away yet ... maybe all those nannies who responded to the advert for a governess / nanny in the Disney film "Mary Poppins." They all blew away before Mary Poppins descended from the sky to intervene in the day to day activities of a particular family with very middle class means.

Every year, there are people seeking the experience of the rapture, and depending on who they follow for inspiration, some sit on mountains on an ordained date, others take cover in shelters, some take a drink or a drug they hope can help them weather the experience they are trying to create... all good, though the rapture as an idea at worst and a comparison at best:

As a SA survivor, from way back in the 60's when no one even remotely death with such issues, I do not equate "rapture" with "ecstasy." I equate the word "rapture" with rape. Being forced, without consent, to an experience that may be at once traumatizing and exciting.

But that's not how this is all used on a day to day/ or in prevention.

Peace Out

Charles Philip Cozart

The rapture is on an epistle. Preachers are mistaken to think that Epistles are the same as the words that proceed out in the mouth of God. Jesus said one will be taken and one will be left but he also said it would be the tares that will be taken and it would be the wheat that wouldn't be left. Several scriptures say that the dead will all rise at the same time, some to eternal life and some to condemnation. The problem with the philosophy of the rapture is that it causes people to wait for an event. Jesus didn't say wait. He said watch, and occupy until I come.

Minister Dixon

A person must be born again of the Spirit, (John 3:16) to go to heaven. They are transformed one by one personally, when they accept Christ as a pathway to heaven. I don't see this as people floating up to heaven all together.

Robert J Rook

Amazing how quickly excuses are provided.

Walter J. Holbrook

Some say it already has begun.

Bishop William Dusenberry, DD

The “Rapture” never happened, so, at best, it should be classified as a portion of “Christian mythology” along with the crucifixion, and the “Birth on a Stable” (and, the Holy Ghost) ” One of my favorite sermons, is when I outline the similarities between Christian, Greek, and Roman mythology— and conclude my sermon with reality — that all superstition-based religions are “man-made.” With the exception of my (our) denomination in the Universal Life Church — Secular Humanist Pantheism — that knows that Nature and God are the same thing, which means that everything categorized as supernatural, is, prima-facia, mythological. Joseph Campbell, in his “Power of Myth” series, makes it clear, that myths are one of the few ways that those who know the least about science, are those who readily accept mythology in its stead.

Roy S. Thorpe

I love it! An interesting concept! All non-Christians are automatically left along with bad Christians and sinners! However God's plan is slightly different and more encompassing! If you get away from the noise of the world and listen carefully He will tell you too! Think of light and darkness that is your clue!

P. Keith Benefiel

Got a 12 gauge for that "thief that comes in the night".

Mark Gibbs

You’ve got a potent hook: “What if the rapture already happened and nobody qualified?” As a device, it’s clever and unsettling—the kind of premise that gets readers to stop scrolling. But right now it reads like a sweeping verdict that accidentally steps on the doctrine it’s trying to provoke. If you want believers to keep reading (and skeptics to nod along), tweak the frame.

First, the “worthiness” thing. In most rapture-friendly theologies, nobody rides the elevator for being good. The whole point is that Christ is worthy and believers are “in” him by grace. If you make the punchline “no one was good enough,” anyone with even Sunday-school eschatology will bounce. Keep the sting, but move it a few inches: not “no one deserved it,” but “would Christ recognize himself in the way we lived?” Same indictment, fewer catechism landmines.

You’re also blending two different moments—rapture and final judgment—because trumpets, clouds, sorting sheep and goats, they all show up in neighboring passages. The imagery is evocative, but for readers who care about the map you’re redrawing, it’s going to feel like a mashup. A small, disarming aside solves this: “Let’s treat ‘rapture’ here as a thought experiment, not a timeline chart.” That tells the theologically literate you know what you’re doing while keeping the metaphor alive.

The big claim—“none were taken”—also paints yourself into a corner. The Bible’s prophetic tradition almost always keeps a remnant alive. Even if you think that’s mythology, many Christians can name people who quietly embody mercy, hospitality, and costly care. If your universe leaves no space for them, your readers will mentally produce a list and decide you’re being rhetorical, not serious. Give the remnant a nod. Then ask the sharper question: given the size of the Church, why does the aggregate witness look so unlike those people?

The moral catalog you assemble—polluted seas, bombed children, bystander guilt—works. It sounds like Amos and Isaiah and Jesus’ “least of these” rolled together. But end-stopping the piece with “and therefore we failed” is less biblical than you might think. The prophetic cadence is usually indictment → invitation. Even if your invitation is strictly pragmatic (“If we’d like a world that a holy God would be glad to gather, here’s what has to change”), it feels more faithful to the genre you’re imitating and keeps readers from filing the whole thing under doom-scroll theology.

I’d also tighten the imagery so the metaphor bites. If you’re going to invoke trumpets and clouds, borrow the text’s inner logic: appearing → gathering to meet → presence. Then pivot: “If the gathering is for those who bear his likeness, why would we expect to rise when we don’t stoop to serve?” It’s cleaner than “we weren’t worthy,” and it lands squarely on behavior without misrepresenting the doctrine you’re critiquing.

Here’s how your idea could read in a blog voice:

What if the rapture is less an escape hatch and more a mirror? Not a cosmic vacuuming of the good people, but a blunt question: if Christ came to gather those who look like him, would he even recognize us? We’ve blessed profits while poisoning water, called bombs ‘peacekeeping,’ and when we didn’t do the harm, we watched it happen.

I know the theology—grace, not gold stars; union with Christ, not moral résumés. Fine. Call this a thought experiment. If love of neighbor were the giveaway trait, would the Church be easy to spot? Some people would be. There’s always a remnant—the ones who show up before the cameras and long after they leave. But taken as a whole? We look strangely comfortable with cruelty, strangely incurious about the hungry, the stranger, the prisoner.

Maybe the problem isn’t that nobody was “good enough.” Maybe it’s that we trained ourselves to expect a lift without learning how to kneel. Trumpets won’t fix that. If we want a world God could gladly gather, repentance has to become visible—food where there wasn’t any, welcome where there wasn’t room, mercy where there was only management. Less spectacle, more resemblance.

If that day came and we didn’t rise, perhaps it’s because we never stooped.

Same energy as your original, but it sidesteps easy theological takedowns, honors the people who actually live the thing, and keeps the prophetic heat. It reads like a sermon you could disagree with and still feel convicted by— which is probably the sweet spot you’re aiming for.

Shawn David Spencer

Let me answer this with a tale about Jesus. It has to do with Jesus in a town he was sent to preach to. They didn't want to hear his words or care what he had to say. They wanted what came with the visits from a prophet. The handouts, the food, the water, they would arrive with containers full of grains and water handing it out to everyone who reached out. Now you must understand in his time and where he lived things like grains were used to seed wheat crops and grown in vast numbers and feed many but in these hot lands, they scorched easy This town however grew to be greedy with the prophets visits so they no longer visited it much. Jesus was looking for something that would catch attention and help people too.

They expected too much and the apostles agreed that they didn't think his patience would survive until the end of dinner. Surprisingly though, as rude as they were, Jesus lasted and when it came time to part his wisdom before they began their meal he told them. The men in temples spend their whole lives consuming wisdom and die still craving more, the wisdom I offer will fill you and satisfy you so that you will thirst no more." And he poured his water onto the sandy floor. The people were so furious they chased him out of town for wasting such precious gifts of water, proclaimed him a fool and threw stuff at him as he left. One apostle looked at the other and said well he was right we were both wrong, they chased him out of town, he never once turn away from them. Jesus thought to himself as he left how appalling it was to have everyone sit there expecting him to be a certain way for the simple reward of it and without a single concern or interest in what he had to say. They all wanted him to act and be a certain way and then expected to be rewarded if he adhered to what they wanted. How arrogant he thought to himself.

Now for me, the author himself, when I asked what they thought of this tale, the first, whom I knew was placed there to learn and turn against me when they said to, rose up and claimed I had transitioned myself into this role as a prophet and that everything in the story was symbolic to my recent situation, that my pouring of the water onto the ground was my way of symbolizing my wisdom and my help and the reaction I have received from the world and so that now like Jesus did in the story, I will turn my back on the people in the city and walk away. So many errors in their perspective, for one, I never said Jesus was a prophet, only suggested that he journeyed a similar path as they did when visiting people. For the demonic force behind this lame attempt of betrayal, you know nothing when it comes to this kind of stuff, if I were out to shame gods name I wouldn't write a story projecting my problems in his image. If we want to assume I have evil things in mind then we would assume that Jesus was an adversary of the prophets as he came to a town that they would not touch, gave to them as they would give, and then offered them a wisdom greater than the temple priests, one that would forever quench their thirst. The story was just a story that I heard as an alternate version of the fish and loaf of bread story we are more familiar with, but it did serve a significant purpose and helpful outcome. It outlined who the antagonist was without an argument among other things.

Shawn David Spencer

You know what I think on this subject. I think people, especially church ministers, should not concern themselves, or the ones they preach to, so much about the prophecies of God and trying to interpret them. As ministers, it is our duty to speak the truth of his word to the people who want to listen. Let God handle his prophecies, he has a department for that. Our calling is to speak about the truth of him. We must be wary of the temptation of pride and glory, even in the ministry of his word.

Marylyn (Pepper) Montague

I’m 90 years old, came from a long line of preachers, priests, ministers, and a rabbi in-law and I can’t count the times I’ve lived past the dates of predicted rapture. That is proof to me that believing is not knowing. But here is what I do believe… if we can’t stop fighting over our “beliefs” and do what all the different gods tell us to do… Love each other… we will bring hell down upon earth… we now have the nuclear capability to make it happen and blow us back to day one, start over. Beliefs are changeable and rearrange-able but Love does not change and itis the same in all of us. When we meet there, we save the day and create tomorrow. With Love, we can create heaven on earth.

Walter Abington

All the Xtians left behind are going to Hell!

Luis I Vazquez

Nobody knows the moment, not the angels and anyone else, just the Father. Jesus will come like a thief in the night

Mrknowitall

What a stupid article,, no one knows the time, not even Jesus Christ ( the is no trinity ) that vision from a demon was exactly that....I'm born again and cannot wait for the rapture, please come ASAP !

Donald G Magel

The Rapture did not pass us by! Jesus went to his fav tv series to become a TV star! Christ is trying hard to get people's attention back on his being the chosen one. He is against this anti-christ that the christian right has replaced him with.There is but one God and Jesus is his son. As Christ is showing us on South Park, the educational level of most MAGAs, that Trump is in bed with Satan! the enemy of the true God.

James Martin Edward Gillen

I should have paid more attention or should I have? There have been numerous predictions for the Rapture, potentially numbering over 200, with many prominent examples including Harold Camping's predictions for 1994, 2011, and 2012, Edgar Whisenant's for 1988, and most recently, Joshua Mhlakela's for 2025. These failed prophecies date back centuries, with early examples seen in the 17th century, and continue to emerge with claims based on astrological, numerological, or biblical interpretations. opinions, like rectums are ubiquitous. I'll trust in God's timing. And, if we put off our own spiritual progress until our end is eminent [however that may come] we are missing the point and it won't make any difference..

Robin Anne Hannon

READ the scripture in its context! First of all, the rapture is referring to 144,00 virgin men. Oh, wait none of us are that? LOL! Secondly it has nothing to do with worthiness. Again, there is none who are righteous according to scripture. It was the blood that became that sacrifice to wash away sin. Now suddenly there is a caveat. There is nothing to say this in scriptures at all. Now there are some that are as black as night in sin who claim with trash mouths to be saved. I could see God dealing with those sorts, but I doubt it has anything to do with who does or does not get raptured. Admit it, they were false prophets and fools. Matther 24:23: Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.

Jacques Redmond

Forgive me if I am wrong,however:

1. I don't remember the Rapture being mentioned in the Bible? The word "rapture" itself doesn't appear in the Bible. The concept comes primarily from 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17, which describes believers being "caught up" to meet Christ:

"For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air."

The term "rapture" comes from the Latin word raptura (meaning "a carrying off"), used in the Latin Vulgate translation for the Greek word harpazo ("caught up" or "snatched away"). Other passages sometimes associated with this concept include:

1 Corinthians 15:51-52 - about believers being transformed "in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye" Matthew 24:40-41 - about one person being "taken" and another "left"

For context: The modern doctrine of the rapture—particularly the idea of a "pre-tribulation rapture" where Christians are removed before a period of tribulation—became popular in the 19th century. Christians interpret these passages very differently:

Some believe in a literal rapture event separate from Christ's second coming Others see this as describing the second coming itself, not a separate event Many denominations don't emphasize or teach rapture theology at all

So while the Bible describes believers meeting Christ in the air, the specific theological framework around "the rapture" is interpreted quite differently across Christian traditions.

2. Have we forgotten John 3:16-18 - The most famous passage on salvation through belief:

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God's one and only Son."

3. Most importantly of all, we are here because we are all sinners. Jesus Christ, the light of the world, our Lord and savior, PAID FOR OUR SINS WITH HIS BLOOD. He already paid the penalty, so we could be saved. So you are saying. in a world of almost 8 BILLION people, NO ONE was "worthy"?

I'm sorry, but that isn't the Jesus Christ I know and love, who taught love and forgiveness. We are fallen, and living in a fallen world. This is why Jesus Christ is our ONLY way and salvation.

I deliver this in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen

Eric

I found this article both provocative and spiritually grounding. The central idea—that the Rapture may have quietly passed us by—challenges me to rethink divine timing and my own readiness. I honor personal revelation and inclusive paths to truth. This reflection reminds me that sacred moments often arrive without spectacle, unfolding in the quiet choices I make and the compassion I extend. Whether metaphor or mystery, it’s a call to live with deeper awareness, humility, and love.

Douglas Robert Spindler

The next end of the world is now next week. The world will now be rid of Christians.

Douglas Robert Spindler

The rapture arrived just as predicted. If you are still here you are in hell. If you are a Christian and still here you are a perpetual sinner and didn't give God enough money on Sundays.

Rev. Carol M Anaski-Figurski

Interesting article on Rapture. Wikipedia's definition of rapture can be told by many different dimensions & is worth reading. Be careful with the rise of rapture horror cult concepts.it may not be doctrine. I like the version of premillennial pre tribulation after the 70th week of Daniel & the 3.5 yrs timeline with current predictions. Blessed be when the gathering of rapture & the 2nd coming of christ is seen as the end of times..

James Riggle-Johnson

I’m not sure this will ease Minister Pike’s mind, but I doubt the rapture passed us by. In fact, the rapture isn’t part of the Bible at all. It originated in the 1830s when John Nelson Darby misinterpreted a few passages and dreamed up the idea.

It gained traction in the early 20th century when C.I. Scofield popularized it through his Scofield Reference Bible in 1909. At its core, the doctrine was an invention—a kind of ‘escape hatch’ to spare Christians from the tribulation.

But if the rapture had truly taken place, do we really believe little children would have been left behind? Can they be that full of sin? What kind of savior would abandon them? To me, this is yet another example of people reshaping Scripture to suit their own needs. It’s not unlike the men who first wrote the Bible: ‘You better be good, you better do what I say, live the way I tell you—or you won’t get into heaven.

Marius Gabriel Burja

The signs in the sky are often forgotten. Seek knowledge of the SolarMicoNova, Magnetic excursion and crustal displacement.......as it was in the time of Noah. People behaving like godless creatures. As a man without God is as a dog or a beast. Uprisings. Witchcraft. Mass casualties and loss of lives. All life forms are changed due to solar activity and lack thereof.

Michael Hall

I got raptured. kthxbai

Stacey Owens

The rapture never happened because it never was the word of God. For someone to say no one was worthy, is an under statement.

Man kind never was worthy only the blood of Christ made us worthy if you abided in him.

Christian don't understand, Christ must appear by the Holy Spirit and the eyes of your understanding must receive him. The Spirit is life it's what set a believer apart from Christianity.

This is not a religion, it's a relationship with the Father and the Son. You should know Him but as unbelievers you can't comprehend Him. But to those who can He has given them the right to become sons and daughters of God. Not Christians but Christ's. Amen?

Lionheart

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Lionheart

It’s really amazing what religionists want to believe, all because of stories in a book that they insisted on believing was true written by a people that insisted on believing misinformation because it sounded good, and nothing could change their mind. I guess they were the original CNN, MSNBC type of culture that has always existed, telling those that didn’t believe them, the FOX culture, would go to Hell, because they had the truth. Way back then they perhaps saw themselves as being “the woke”, and here they are, still waiting for it to happen, bless their hearts. Nothing will change their thought structure. It’s hardly surprising they ended up believing in a girl getting pregnant by a supposed deity, and will still promote that story today. All we can really do is love them and help them as best we can. 🤗

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Robin Anne Hannon

lol someone had indigestion not a true knowledge of future events.

Robin Anne Hannon

First of all it's 144,00 Jewish men (Ultra orthodox no doubt as in this day and age, virgin men are rare. Secondly there is nothing in scripture that says it passed us by. This was one man with a so-called dream or prophesy. In the Old Testament he'd probably be stoned for this as it was not even remotely correct. Prophets were to be 100 percent accurate. Maybe it was indigestion lol

Robin Anne Hannon

You are entitled to your beliefs, but if you read scripture it talks about the rapture of 144,000 virgin men, not random people on the planet. Depending on your take of Revelations these would also be Jewish men. More than likely ultra-orthodox because virgin men these days are rare. As well it's unlikely it "passed us by". There is nothing like that in scripture that says it's a possibility. This one pastor had a "vision". Well maybe it was indigestion lol.

Mark A. Bartholomew Sr.

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