CHARLO, New Brunswick, August 24, 2023 – Imagine, for a second, being rejected by God.

For a born-again believer, this is not something we would consider imagining. We know our God and are strong in our faith.

But for those who are not genuinely born-again and who rely on people around them to prop them up and tell them what to believe, being rejected by God is a fear perpetually lurking in the back of their mind, a fear perpetually stoked by those spoon-feeding them their beliefs.

Now let’s take these same people who are weak in faith and present them with a strong delusion, something like a mass abduction or sudden unexplained disappearance of thousands of Christians. Make the disappearance headline news for weeks across all media so that it’s all everyone is talking about everywhere. Call it something like “the rapture”.

Then imagine the turmoil in the souls of the weak in faith who’ve been left behind. Imagine how they feel, believing they’ve been publicly rejected by God. Imagine the stages of grief they go through. Imagine that most of them stop at anger.

Imagine all those who don’t know why they’ve been left behind stewing in their anger and disbelief. Imagine them turning their anger on God. Imagine, as a result of their anger, millions upon millions of Christians falling away from God in response to his seeming rejection of them. Imagine the degree and extent of such a monumental outcry of outrage, followed by a monumental falling away happening all over the world all at once.

Imagine the falling away!

Now imagine the devil’s glee.

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I had a dream a few weeks ago about a false rapture. Instead of people rising to meet Jesus in the clouds, as foretold by Paul, people were abducted by very real flesh-and-blood abductors and spirited away to bunkers. Then there were those who were “in on it” – high-profile Christians who’d preached on the rapture and who’d agreed to disappear for a while. The ones spirited away to bunkers included people like us – spirit-filled, born-again believers who would likely be troublemakers in the beast system and would see through the false rapture. They held us for a while in the bunkers, where they tortured us to try to get us to turn from God, and then they killed us.

Those who were “in on it” and who’d agreed to disappear for a while, later reappeared after the beast system (the false kingdom) was up and running. They returned with great fanfare to take their place alongside the anti-Christ, ruling with him. But not all of them who were “in on it” were allowed to live. Many of the lower-level rapture fraudsters were killed along with the people in the bunker. Something about tying up loose ends….

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After the dream, I spent a few days watching videos and reading testimonies of people who claim to have had rapture dreams and/or visions. I found that the dreams and visions generally fall into two categories: scenes of being part of the rapture and scenes of being left behind. Many of those who’d seen themselves being left behind recounted their vision or dream in tears. Underneath the tears, their anger and disbelief were palpable as they tried to reason with themselves why they were left behind.

It’s heartbreaking to see how many people have been caught up in the lie of the false rapture under the slogan “Jesus is coming back soon!” If the devil wanted to manufacture a world-wide simultaneous falling away from faith, he could do no better than to get people to believe they’ve been rejected by God without cause, while others they consider “less worthy” than them are taken to Heaven.

I believe that Jesus will return some day in glory with his holy angels to take home his faithful, but that this will happen at the very end of time, just before the Judgement. This is what God teaches me in scripture. I do not believe in either a pre-tribulation or a mid-tribulation rapture. I do believe that such alleged raptures are doctrines of devils that have been created to be used as I outlined above – as a snare for those who are weak in faith. It will be a false rapture, but many will fall for it and many more will fall because of it.

This strong delusion, I believe, will trigger the great falling away foretold by Paul that must happen before the “son of perdition” rises to power.

The only way to avoid this snare and not be caught up in the devil’s lies is to stand strong in the faith of Jesus Christ, not in the faith of YouTube prophets and televangelists.