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“BE YE NOT DECEIVED”: FAILED RAPTURE AND END-OF-THE-WORLD PROPHECIES OVER THE PAST 2000 YEARS
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, September 19, 2025 – Below are links to lists of dates and descriptions of failed rapture and end-of-the-world prophecies over the past two millennia. While the lists to date are likely incomplete (only those in the spiritual realm would have a true tally of failed predictions), they still give you a good idea of how many times these events have not only been prophesied but widely and fervently believed.
Depending on where you stand in relation to false prophet grifters, this compilation is either depressing, eye-opening, exasperating, or downright hilarious. Jesus warned us not to be deceived about end-of-the-world prophecies and his second coming, and Paul sternly echoed the warning. And yet, despite the scriptural weight of Jesus’ and Paul’s words and the mounting evidence of failed prediction after failed prediction, people still fall for the same ol’ same ol’ trick of the devil, insisting “this time is different”.
Without further comment:
LIKE A THIEF – LET NO MAN DECEIVE YOU: ON JESUS’ RETURN
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, September 8, 2025 – When Jesus said he’d be coming back like “a thief in the night”, he meant just that. He meant it for us (his followers), and he meant it for everyone else, too. Jesus will come back as unexpectedly as a thief in the night for us all, no exceptions. The difference between his followers and those who don’t follow him is that his followers will be spiritually prepared for his coming, whereas everyone else will be spiritually unprepared. But Jesus will still come back at a time that even he doesn’t yet know. That is scriptural.
And scripture, as Jesus reminded us, cannot be undone.
The reason Jesus warned us about the style of his return is that he wanted us to be prepared when it does happen—to expect the unexpected—so that we’ll be doing whatever task we’ve been set to do and won’t be caught side-tracked and back-sliding, and with our spiritual pants down. But the “thief in the night” style of return is how it’s going to be because that’s what’s Jesus said it would be. In other words, we can’t know exactly when he’ll return; all we can know is that he will return and that it will be during a time of great upheaval and spiritual darkness, as he described in the gospels. But Jesus’ return will still be as unexpected as a thief in the night, and that unexpectedness will be for us all, not just for unbelievers.
When Paul mentioned that Jesus’ return won’t come on us like a thief, he meant that we’d be spiritually prepared for when the thief does come. Paul in no way implied that Jesus will only come back like a thief for unbelievers. If Paul had meant that or implied that, he’d be contradicting Jesus, which Paul did not and would not do. Like Jesus, Paul meant that if you’re prepared, you won’t be overcome by the thief when he shows up unexpectedly because you’ve prepared yourself in advance for just such an event. The thief-in-the-night aspect of Jesus’ return was upheld by Paul, not modified to mean that it only applied to unbelievers. Paul very clearly states that although Jesus will come back like a thief in the night, his true followers, being always prepared, will be prepared for that, too. By being prepared, Paul meant they’ll be doing whatever it is God set them to do. Paul’s explanation of Jesus’ return is exactly like Jesus’ explanation
It’s worth noting that Paul also warned us not to be deceived by anyone who claims to know when Jesus is coming back. He explained that Jesus will return only after the “man of sin” has first been revealed, which will only take place after a mass falling away. In Revelation, the man of sin is revealed well into the great tribulation, not before it and not in the early stages, but well into it. This aligns with what Jesus said about his return coming at a time of great upheaval and great spiritual darkness. As bad as things are now, they can’t really be described as a time of great spiritual darkness, as we can still openly worship as Christians in a large part of the world. We’re in a time of increasing spiritual darkness, yes, but not of great spiritual darkness. And the man of sin has yet to be revealed.
Our job as followers of Jesus is to continue to do whatever God has set us to do. This doesn’t change regardless of what’s going on around us. So when the “thief” comes unexpectedly (and come unexpectedly he will), he’ll find us doing what we’ve be tasked with doing, which means we’ll be ever-ready and ever-prepared for his return.
[B]e ye not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled,
neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us,
as that the day of Christ is at hand.
Let no man deceive you by any means:
for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first,
and that man of sin be revealed….
(2 Thessalonians 2:2-3)
DECEPTION
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, August 31, 2025 – I wrote a few days ago about how children are easily deceived, especially by people older than them. I remember as an eight-year-old thinking that my 13-year-old babysitter was a trustworthy adult because she was allowed to make Kraft Dinner all by herself. Whenever she’d babysit, I’d do whatever she’d tell me to do (including dutifully eat her rock-hard macaroni with lumpy cheese sauce) because I unquestioningly accepted her full authority over me.
I saw the same unquestioning obedience in the three- and seven-year-old sons of a former boyfriend of mine. Whenever they’d come over for the weekend, I’d take them to the corner store for treats, just the three of us. The littler one would hold on tight to my hand, fully trusting me though he hardly knew me. Whatever candies I’d buy for them, they’d solemnly eat. It was strange for me, not being a mother myself, to see how willingly they complied with my every word.
It’s easier to deceive children than adults because children haven’t yet developed the healthy skepticism that comes with age and experience. Still, many people allow themselves to be deceived even into adulthood, perhaps out of a misplaced desire to recreate the safe haven they felt as children. But we born-again believers don’t have the luxury of willful naivete or of suspending our disbelief and holding on tight to the hands of worldly authorities. We also can’t afford to accept at face value the revelations of self-proclaimed prophets in the worldly church. We need to stand firm in God’s truth at all times, no matter how uncomfortable that might be for us or how alone we stand. God is our Truth, not rumor, innuendo, peer pressure, frenzied mobs, or false prophecies.
Which brings me to the topic of today’s article – deception. A tool of the devil, deception is also used on occasion as a testing strategy permitted by God. When the devil wields deception as a reward (that is, as something that’s been earned), he delivers it as a spiritual stronghold, so that those under its thrall are under his direct authority. Prior to my rebirth, I was constantly under the devil’s spiritual strongholds of one kind or another, especially in relationships, and so I know how nearly impossible it is to see clearly when you’re in them, let alone to break free of them. On the other hand, when God permits deception for testing purposes, he also provides a clear way for us to discern the lie and so to avoid falling for it.
You can’t “logic” a person out of a spiritual stronghold. You also can’t pray them out. Even if you think you’re making headway with someone who’s under a stronghold, they’ll willingly tighten their own chains as soon as you’ve gone home for the night. When the devil uses deception as a reward, he has God-given authority over everyone under the appointed stronghold: Even God won’t intervene in those cases, other than in rare exceptions that lead to spiritual rebirth.
But deception when allowed by God for testing purposes is vastly different. It’s still administered by the devil, but it’s not a spiritual stronghold; it’s not a due reward for choices made: It’s a test that comes in the form of a temptation to believe something that isn’t true. Jesus says that sometimes these deceptions are so extreme, even the “elect” (that’s us!) can be deceived. So how are we to know who or what to believe during these tests?
Paul advises us always to test the spirits, so even when we’re being tested, we need to test the spirits. (Especially when we’re being tested, we need to test the spirits.) However, when we’re being tested, we can’t just go to God in prayer and ask him for answers like we normally do, any more than when we were in school we could ask our teacher for answers when we were writing exams. During testing, we’re pretty much on our own as far as the answers go. That means we need to rely on what we’ve previously learned, and we need to use our discernment.
The best and most recent example of a God-sanctioned spiritual stronghold under the devil is the alleged September 23-24 rapture of the church. Suffice to say it’s just another version of the same-old same-old that’s been making the rounds for nearly 2000 years. The Jesus-is-coming-back-soon hysteria tends to be cyclical, but people still willingly embrace it so the devil keeps trotting it out, confident in its positive results for him. “Jesus is coming back soon!” is one of the devil’s favorite lies, as he harvests a bumper crop of disillusioned souls each time the prophecy fails.
Ironically, when Jesus does actually come back, the devil won’t be plying us beforehand with this particular deception. He won’t be allowed to. Like the virgins who fall asleep just before the bridegroom appears, we won’t know exactly when Jesus is coming until he’s suddenly here. The knowledge will be supernaturally withheld from us by God, who’s also, according to scripture, the only one who knows exactly when Jesus is coming back. Even Jesus himself still doesn’t know when he’s coming back and won’t know until he gets the signal that it’s time to ride.
As for us, our only heads-up will be our ongoing standing order to keep doing our jobs so that when Jesus does appear, he finds us doing what we should be doing during our time on Earth – namely, the specific work that God has given each of us to do. The last thing we want Jesus to find us doing is laboring under the latest lie of the devil.
We aren’t children anymore, to naively entrust ourselves to worldly authority figures or to believe lies because we don’t know any better. We also shouldn’t be easily deceived when we have God’s Spirit of discernment to guide us. Yes, tests on deception can be difficult (they’re meant to be), but God will only test us according to our ability: He doesn’t test us on what we don’t know; he tests us on what we do know, to see how we apply our learning in real-life situations.
As born-again believers, we don’t have to worry about being under demonic strongholds anymore, not as long as we’re under God’s grace. If we genuinely have God’s Spirit with us, we can’t come directly under the devil’s authority. It’s a spiritual impossibility. We can, however, be subjected to tests on deception delivered by the devil. God will permit that. Which means we always need to be on our spiritual toes, because those tests don’t come announced, and when they do come, they come hard and fast, often before we even realize we’re being tested.
This September’s rapture prophecy will play out like the countless other rapture prophecies before it, and the devil will take his payment in souls, like he always does. When the stronghold spell is broken on September 25, the majority of the people now under its thrall will quietly delete their “I had a dream” videos and move onto the next craze, having learned nothing from the experience. Some will even walk away from God altogether, feeling betrayed.
I pray you’re not among them.
HERE AND GONE: THE RAPTURE ABDUCTION
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, March 8, 2025 – The powers-that-be have a plan. When their time comes (that is, when Satan’s time comes), they’re going to get rid of us, with God’s permission. To back their plan, they’ve twisted scripture until it states that the golden age of Jesus’ Kingdom will come only after true believers have been raptured and everyone else has gone through a tribulation. First comes the rapture, then comes the tribulation, and then comes Jesus’ 1000-year Kingdom, along with the return to Earth of all the previously raptured saints.
Sounds great, right? Really something to look forward to!
The only problem is that it’s junk theology. Scripture doesn’t back it up (except the part about God permitting us to be killed). In the “millennial reign” mentioned in the book of Revelation, the martyred believers reign with Jesus for “a thousand years” (i.e., a very long but indeterminate time stipulated by God). These saints died and went to Heaven, where their bodies have been glorified. Glorified bodies aren’t suited for long-term visitations on Earth, which is why angels don’t appear in their glorified form very often or for more than a few minutes at a time. Instead, most angels appear in an earthly-heavenly hybrid body, like Jesus during his 40 days of post-resurrection appearances. But hybrid bodies aren’t built for long-term earthly use either, so how are Jesus and his saints going to reign on Earth in physical form for a thousand years?
I’ve written about this before, but it bears repeating because the PTB have been going into overdrive lately beating their rapture drum (see the video here or below for an example). They’re hammering the rapture into people – even unbelievers – by simplifying and codifying its occurrence, so that when the mass abductions take place, most people will default to “rapture” and accept the disappearances without question or be threatened into silence.
I have zero doubt that there’ll be mass abductions. How else are they going to get rid of us when their time comes? Still, the truth of the matter is that Jesus has been reigning on Earth for almost 2000 years already. Jesus is King here and now, and his glorified saints rule with him in his spiritual Kingdom, while we, his Earth-bound saints, are its cherished and protected citizens. This is the prophesied Zion written about in the OT, taught by Jesus in the NT, and presented as the millennial reign in the book of Revelation. There will be no other Kingdom on Earth and no other Zion, golden or otherwise. This is it.
There will also be no rapture as framed by the PTB, though there will be individual ascensions, like Jesus mentions (“one shall be taken, and the other left”) and as exemplified by Jesus, Elijah, and Enoch. So no, there won’t be a mass rapture before the tribulation, but there will be mass abductions of born-again believers. That is the PTB’s diabolical plan.
But I guess you’ll just have to take my word for it, because if I’m still here when it all goes down (or allegedly up), I probably won’t be around to tell you “I told you so”, because I’ll be gone.
And so will you.
TRUE AND FALSE PROPHECIES: A COMPARISON OF THE ASCENSION EVENT AND THE RAPTURE
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, November 19, 2024 – There are many ways to discern a false prophet. I’ve gone over some of them in earlier articles (if you’re interested, type “false prophets” into this webpage’s search bar in the upper right corner). As I’ve mentioned in several of the articles, false prophets can still preach God’s Truth, though they mix it with the devil’s lies. Is there a way, then, to know when a prophet is giving us good intel about the future?
Yes, thank God, there is. Jesus himself told us about it in various parables that stressed two key features about prophecies that deal with future events. These two features are:
- Unexpectedness. The events will happen when you least expect them; and even if they do occur more or less when you expect them to occur, they’ll unfold differently than you anticipated. In some cases (like the coming of Jesus, the Messiah), they’ll be so unlike what was anticipated, many will doubt whether the event fulfilled the prophecy.
- Urgency. Prophecies that give you the impression you still have plenty of time to get things right with God are not from God. They are false, as all prophecies about future events are fueled by a sense of spiritual urgency – an urgency that arises from the prophesied unexpectedness of their occurrence. The urgency also comes from our understanding that we as individuals must be ready at every moment of every day to face God for the judgement, because after we breathe our last (which could come at any time), it’s too late to make amends. At that point, what we’ve done, we’ve done, and what we’ve left undone, we’ve left undone, and that for all eternity.
These two characteristics – unexpectedness and urgency – are the hallmarks of prophecies that come from God regarding future events. In short, if the prophecy doesn’t highlight the quality of unexpectedness in the event’s occurrence and the urgency of our taking immediate steps to prepare for it spiritually, the prophesy is not from God.
With these rules of thumb in mind, let’s take a look at the most highly anticipated and publicized future event of all time – the second coming of Jesus Christ. In particular, let’s look at the ascension event that Jesus and Paul prophesied and which has been popularized recently as the “rapture”. As I’ve written here before, I’m not a fan of the rapture, as I believe it’s a false prophesy. The ascension event as foretold by Jesus and Paul is unquestioningly from God, but the rapture is not. Here’s why.
UNEXPECTEDNESS
Unexpectedness is a key feature in future event prophecies that come from God. We are to expect the unexpected; we are to prepare for the unexpected; but we should still anticipate being entirely surprised when it occurs. We won’t be sitting with a stopwatch, counting down the seconds or watching the power balls drop our lucky numbers one by one. Jesus mentions that people will be doing things as mundane as working in the fields or sleeping in a bed or lounging around waiting for the very late bridegroom to show up (some perhaps giving up hope that he’ll even come). I also believe that the unexpectedness of the ascension event will be supernaturally imposed by God – whoever’s still on Earth when it happens won’t know it’s about to happen, because God will prevent them from knowing, the same way he supernaturally prevented the disciples from knowing about Judas Iscariot’s planned betrayal of Jesus (so they wouldn’t try to stop him).
Unexpectedness will also play out in how the ascension event itself will play out – that is, what it will actually look like. Jesus said that he will return in glory with his holy angels, and that he’ll send his angels to all corners of the earth to gather his Church. At Jesus’ ascension 40 days after his resurrection, two angels told the disciples that Jesus would return the same way he went up – that is, via the cloud in the sky and accompanied by holy angels. Paul mentions being “caught up in the clouds… in the air”, the same way Jesus is described ascending (and also the same way Elijah and the two witnesses are described ascending). This, then, we can assume is how the ascension event will play out, at least according to scriptural references.
The rapture, on the other hand, widely publicizes a type of disappearance that doesn’t align with scripture and is almost comical. The bodies of believers disappear, but their clothes are left behind either in a heap on the floor or bench or car seat, or neatly folded with glasses, watches, and jewelry on top. In every instance, the actual disappearance is not witnessed, just the aftermath is. None of the “left behind” people see the disappeared disappear; typically, they look away for a second, and when they look back, the person is gone. Or they come home to an empty apartment or an empty house, finding only the aforementioned heap of clothing on a chair or the floor. Nobody witnesses anyone rising up in a cloud or into the clouds accompanied by angels, as prophesied by Jesus and Paul and as relayed by the disciples at Jesus’ ascension. There’s just a “Now you see ‘em, now you don’t” moment, which is not scriptural.
There’s also a question of timing. Paul prophesies that the “dead in Christ” will rise first, after which the rest will ascend. Jesus states that he’s send his angels to the “four winds” to gather his Church, which seems to me like it won’t happen all at once but staggered over a period of time. Paul does mention that it will happen in “a twinkling”, or very fast, but I believe the “twinkling” refers to how fast the ascended will change from their earthly body to their glorified one. I don’t believe the ascension of the Church will happen in a twinkling.
Let’s look at Elijah’s ascension as an example of what might happen to Jesus’ Church. It was well-known among the local prophets of each region that Elijah would be taken to Heaven. God must have informed them all, because Elijah knew it, Elisha (the prophet who took over from him) knew it, and all the lesser prophets knew it. What they didn’t know was the exact time or exact manner that Elijah would be taken. First, they all thought it would likely happen on this day at this place, and then God sent Elijah somewhere else that took a few days’ journey to get to. So then they all thought it would likely happen at that place, but God sent Elijah somewhere else, until everyone involved just kind of slacked off a bit, thinking it wouldn’t happen for a while… until suddenly, chariots and horses of fire appeared in the sky and Elijah was taken up in a whirlwind. That was the last that anyone on Earth saw of Elijah until his cameo appearance with Moses at the transfiguration.
Eijah, Elisha, and all the local prophets were definitely not expecting chariots and horses of fire to emerge from the clouds in the sky. Nor were they expecting the chariots and horses to show up when they did. In fact, after the several false starts, the two prophets were just ambling along shooting the breeze when Elijah was unexpectedly whisked away. I think the ascension event for us will be just like that – both expected and unexpected, and in a manner that was unanticipated.
I also believe that the ascension of Jesus’ Church will happen one by one and that each of the ascendees will be escorted by angels. If we’re here when it happens and we’re blessed to be chosen, we’ll all see Jesus coming in the clouds in his glorified body, but it will be his holy angels who come for each of us individually to take us up into the sky to join Jesus. How that will play out? How will the angels will approach us and draw us up into the sky? I guess we’ll have to wait and see when the time comes. Tellingly, the angel escorts are glaringly absent from any rapture movie I’ve ever seen, even though Jesus pointedly mentions them in his ascension prophecy.
I have attended at the death of a loved one, and while I didn’t see any angels present, I definitely felt their presence (and the absence of their presence when they left with my loved one’s soul). At the ascension of the remnant Church, the angels will be in their glorified form, like Jesus, and fully visible to everyone on Earth. Just the thought alone of this glorious event makes me so excited and happy! Like Elijah anticipating going Home to Heaven, I can’t wait!
URGENCY
The overwhelming emotion that is expressed as a jubilant “I can’t wait!” fuels a sense of urgency that is the second main characteristic of a prophecy from God. God’s prophecies never leave us with the impression that we can settle on our lees or that we’ll always have plenty of time to prepare. The urgency characteristic contrasts sharply with the “If at first you don’t succeed…” feature of the rapture doctrine, which assures us that if we or our loved ones miss out on the first round of the second coming, we shouldn’t be unduly worried because we can catch up with Jesus at the second round (as if there will be such a thing). I believe, and again scripture backs me up here, that there will logically only be one second coming, not two or more, which means that anyone left behind after the ascension event prophesied by Jesus and Paul will not have another opportunity. It will be just one and done.
The whole point of the urgency feature in God’s prophecies is to prevent people from procrastinating spiritually. As I mentioned above, we should be ready at every moment of every day to come before God for Judgement. We shouldn’t be “rapture-ready”, we should be Judgement-ready, which incites in us an entirely different and deeper degree of spiritual readiness. I don’t want to lay my head down at night with unrepented sin on my soul, any more than I want to go through any part of my day with sin on my soul. I want always to be Judgement-ready and prepared to meet God at any time.
This is the sense of spiritual urgency that a prophecy from God inspires in us, and I don’t see that in the rapture doctrine, mainly because it promises second or even third chances to get right with God after the initial rapture event. I also don’t see it in the rapture-related doctrine of the tribulation period preceding Jesus’ second coming that insists that people will simply be able to call out to God right up to the last minute and be saved. I believe the cut-off time for conversion will occur at the end of the birth pangs period and just before the tribulation proper begins, and no-one knows the day or hour for that. The book of Revelation doesn’t describe any conversions – none at all – after the tribulation proper begins in Chapter 8. There’s horrendous suffering accompanied by copious cursing and blaspheming, but no conversions. Not one conversion is recorded in scripture after the start of the tribulation. What we do see recorded is that, for all their suffering, none of the unsealed repent.
This bleak outlook for the unconverted is meant to be bleak. It needs to be bleak. Its bleakness relays an urgency that is the hallmark of a prophecy from God. We should not be left with the impression that we’ll always have plenty of time to change our ways. The devil wants us to think that, but God doesn’t. We should also not be given the impression that our unconverted loved ones will have plenty of time to convert. Jesus says that anyone who loves his spouse, parents, children, etc., more than they love him is not worthy of him. A harsh statement, certainly, but necessarily harsh. We should pray for our unbelieving loved ones (who else will pray for them?), but we should never let their unbelief come between us and Jesus or between us and God. If we must choose between our family and Jesus and God, we must never hesitate to choose Jesus and God. The rapture prophecy, with its loosey-goosey approach to conversion and the promise of mid- and post-tribulation conversions for those who currently reject the Gospel, is clearly false.
God’s prophecies always have two key features: unexpectedness and urgency. The unexpectedness comes from the miraculous nature of the event, and the urgency comes from the necessity always to be Judgement-ready. Prophecies that don’t have these characteristics don’t come from God.
ON JESUS’ THIRD COMING: CHATTING WITH LUCY
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, November 19, 2024
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[Phone ringing.]
Hi, this is Lucy. How can I serve the Lord by serving you today?
Have I reached Raptures R Us™?
Yes, you have reached Raptures R Us™. This is Lucy. How can I serve the Lord by serving you today?
I have a question about the raptures.
Which one?
That was kinda my question. I was hoping that you could clarify something for me.
I’ll try.
In the Gospels, Jesus says he’ll come back at the end of time to gather his church after the great tribulation. Is that correct?
Yes, that’s correct. Was that your question?
No, I was just confirming that Jesus is coming back after the tribulation. Raptures R Us™ also claims that Jesus is coming back before the great tribulation. Is that correct?
Yes, that’s correct. Was THAT your question?
No, again I’m just confirming that we both have the same information. According to Raptures R Us™, Jesus is coming back both before the tribulation and after the tribulation. Is that correct?
Yes, it is. I already confirmed that.
So which one is his second coming?
[Silence.]
Was that your question?
Yes, that’s my question. If Jesus is coming back twice (before the tribulation and after the tribulation), which of his two returns will be his second coming? Is the one before the tribulation his second coming or is the one after the tribulation his second coming? Because Jesus says in the Gospels that he’ll come again, and the angels confirm it in Acts, but none of them mention that Jesus will come back twice, only once. So, if he comes back already before the tribulation and then comes back again after the tribulation, will that be his second and third comings? Or are both of his returns considered his second coming, as in “Second Coming: Part A” and “Second Coming: Part B”?
[Silence.]
Hello? Lucy? Are you still there?
[Silence.]
Lucy??
Yes, I’m still here. I was just consulting with my team. We’ll have to get back to you about this. Could you please give us your full name and address and let us the best time we can meet with you in person at your place of residence?
You want to meet with me in person just to answer a question?
Yes, the personal touch is very important to us here at Raptures R Us™. We’ll send a personal van team to your place of residence at your earliest possible convenience.
That sounds kind of complicated. How about if I just drop by your office instead?
Sorry, that won’t be possible. We don’t give out our physical address.
Neither do I. Thank you for answering my question.
But… I didn’t answer it yet.
Oh, yes you did.
[Click, and dial tone.]
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I HAD A RAPTURE DREAM: THE FINAL SOLUTION
MCLEODS, New Brunswick, April 17, 2024 – Not sure why all the “rapture dream” videos have been popping up in my YouTube feed lately, but there certainly is a bumper crop of them. The mass psychosis is reaching pandemic proportions among those who insist that “Jesus is coming back soon” to whisk them away before things become too nasty down here.
Never mind that Jesus warned his followers that they’d be classed as outlaws and would of necessity have to suffer the same persecutions that he did.
Never mind that Daniel prophesied that believers will “fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days”, or that the “king of fierce countenance… shall destroy the mighty and the holy people” and “shall wear out the saints of the most high”, or that John in Revelation prophesied of that same king that “it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them.”
Never mind scripture. The YouTube prophets have it all figured out, thanks to the guiding hand of the televangelists. No genuine believers, according to them, will have to suffer anything prophesied by Jesus, Daniel, John, or any of God’s prophets. Hallelujah and praise the Lord, amirite?
Only what we have here in reality is a spiritually invoked mind-worm that is infesting those who want to believe that God would never allow them to suffer the prophesied trials and indignities. Interestingly (and perhaps tellingly), all the people publicizing their rapture dream confessed to fervently wanting to have such a dream. Many of these dreams were also accompanied by a “presence” on or near the dreamer’s bed.
Here’s what we know about presences on or near beds while people are in a state of sleep or near-sleep – they’re well-documented as being demonic entities. And here’s what we know about demonic entities – they’re well able to mimic heavenly presences, as scripture tells us that Lucifer himself will appear as an angel of light.
As born-again believers, we know that a mass ascension will indeed take place because Jesus told us it would. His words are clearly recorded in scripture. But this ascension will occur only at the very end of time when Jesus comes back in glorified form with his holy angels, who will gather together the last of his faithful and take them Home. This event will be highly visible to everyone on Earth, not just to a chosen few, and all those not involved in the ascension will be simultaneously struck with the certain knowledge of who Jesus is and what they lost by rejecting him.
Any so-called rapture that will take place before this witnessed-by-all mass ascension will not be a supernatural event but very much a human-engineered one. It will involve the individual snatching away and abduction of pre-selected people (“snatching away” and “abduction” being the root meaning of the word “rapture”), likely leaving only their clothing behind as “evidence”. Of these abductees, most will be genuine believers, although some will be rapture believers, and a few will be wolves in sheep’s clothing who are in on the scheme. It will be the final solution meant to rid the world of evangelizing Christians once and for all, as after this event is publicized as the rapture among rapture-pushing denominations and they realize they’ve been left behind, what faith they had will be dissolved under their hurt pride.
Do I believe these abductions will take place soon? I have no idea. Despite the rapture being a human-engineered event, its timing is still up to God. Even the people planning the abductions have no idea when they’re going to take place. Nonetheless, they’ve been preparing for the operation for some time now, awaiting the signal. Note that it won’t require a lot of people to be “raptured”, just enough to get rid of the worst of the troublemakers (that is, those who refuse to fall for their lies) and to lend credence to the myth of the rapture so that those left behind will be soul crushed. After Jesus has allegedly come and gone without them, what will these people have left to believe in?
Some of you may be wondering how I know about the planned abductions. Did I stumble across a leaked document on the deep dark web? Did I overhear a whispered conversation? Did I bug a secret meeting of the infamous cabal?
Nope. None of the above. The simple fact is, dear reader: I had a rapture dream, too. ;D
RAPTURE DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES
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.
THE SECOND COMING: A reminder
PHOENIX, Arizona, June 1, 2017 – There is a rising fervor among self-proclaimed Christians for the second coming of Jesus.
Many either see themselves as escaping with Jesus through the (false man-made doctrine of) pre-tribulation rapture, or eagerly awaiting his 1000-year reign on Earth when he’ll set up his kingdom and set things right.
But here’s the thing – Muslims also expect a second coming of Jesus. In their version of end-time events, Jesus is supposed to co-reign with a great leader who will likewise set up a kingdom and set things right, but in an Islamist kind of way. To Muslims, Jesus is a prophet, not the Messiah, and he will return as a prophet, not as the Messiah.
And here’s another thing – the recently deceased Israeli Chief Kabbalist, Kaduri, proclaimed in a hand-written post-mortem missive that Jesus was the Messiah, that he had met him in dreams, and that he was already in Israel (but didn’t yet know that he was the Messiah).
Hmmm…. (more…)
A BORN-AGAIN BELIEVER 