A South African pastor had a dream and God told him the rapture was today. He posted and it went viral.
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Oh nice a real answer! Thanks :)
Some one read a book somewhere, did some shitty maths without converting ye oldy calendars with modern calendars and decided today was the day it all ends.
But it won't, every rapture day has been a lie.
How do you know? Maybe all the true Christians really did get raptured, and that number just happens to be zero. This kind of does seem like hell on earth.
No unusual missing person reports today. Hmmmm did you say “true” christians?
THE END IS NEAR!
^(what exactly is ending is subject to interpretation)^
What do you mean? Every rapture day has been absolutely true. We've been raptured many times so far, like every other year.
Apparently some ultra religious tik tok accounts are saying that they know when it’s going down regardless of the bible stating that no man will know the day or the hour.
We watch if Australia goes offline then we know the hour.
Aah Y2K-Bug memories :-)
It's not. They did the same thing about 5 months ago. I have a religious friend and that was all the talk. Then when it didn't happen, they claimed it wasn't the right time.
Essentially, they have zero clue when it will be (because it doesn't exist) and they continue to make up excuses for why it hasn't happened. Religious people do some mental gymnastics that is hard for the non-religious person to understand.
Fun fact: The bible says that only God knows when the world will end, so everyone that says they know when it ends is technically comitting sacrilege.
I just hope none of these people are stupid enoigh to commit mass suicide with their families... I've seen some tik toks of Karens talking about how they did not send their kids to school today... I really hope none of them harms their kids.
If they actually believe that bullshit, chances are pretty good they're already harming their kids psychologically at the very least.
I've heard that in some places Facebook marketplace is really busy as they're dumping all physical possessions.
Why bother? Need money to get to Heaven?
Some are just giving it away. The rest... Well, they're not smart.
Well you see the Reasonablists book the park for today because the Ice Cream social was yesterday. So Zorp the Surveyor will come at dawn to eat our faces.
Hail Zorp!
Better get your checkbooks ready!!
You can cash it tomorrow.
I’ve been carving flutes for the last six weeks.
People big dumb.
They've been making apocalyptic predictions at least since John the Baptist. Eventually they'll get it right, they just might need a few hundred more guesses.
It's not. It happened in 1988.
I thought it happened some December day in 2012?
It did you just didn't get taken.
Nor did anyone else.
Yep why we are living through hell now.
Before we were just living through hell for fun
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Earth's timeline went terminal on July 5th, 1998.
There have been so many predictions on endtimes which is kinda funny since the whole specific biblical thing about that not happening. Still preachers will preach it like they are not contradicting their whole religion. I mean like propserity doctrine so...
Today is just Tuesday, you have been misinformed.
That's the day M. Bison came to my village!
Oh I dont believe it one bit. Even in the bible it says we wont know (like a thief in the night) so its funny to hear all this online.
Wednesday here, no rapture. Surprise surprise.
The vermin rats are having a party on "rature" day. Buy them some cheese.
yes-yes. Honor the great horned rat, by offer-giving cheese, man-thing!
you'll find out at 2:00PM PST ;)
Well, shit, I knew I shouldn't have disabled push notifications...
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Got me, I only heard about it yesterday
Just self important virtue signaling from people who believe they're better than you.
If you want to fuck with some folks leave a few full sets of clothing on the ground in places like whoever wore them disappeared.
Also fun can be finding someone who believes today is the day and then laugh at them tomorrow about how it actually did happen but they didn't (no one did) make the cut.
My wife told me about this last night, just another doomsday cult pulling a date out of their ass... Not sure which one.
Google says:
Oh, fucking TikTok... naturally.
Because religious people are stupid and easily manipulated. Hence why they are religious to begin with.
Today is the Day of Trumpets, which happened to be the day Messiah Yeshua returns in the future, after some things happen. This Jesuit hype happens every year, and they (the Jesuits) will eventually stage a fake Rapture and traumatize those who didn't "make it"... if they hadn't faked a Rapture already.
One more piece of proof is that the term "Rapture" is nowhere found in the Scriptures. People being taken up has to do specifically with something else entirely (I don't remember it off the top of my head right now). This is from my producer's research on the matter, which I attempted to verify myself.
Yeah, the whole idea of the Rapture is extra-Biblical. Invented in 1830 by John Nelson Darby.
That seems to be futurist language that is used, whereas my producer and I are not futurists (for we'd be Jesuit fraudsters if we believed that). It's also found in dispensation theology, which is a pot of crock too.
Because these people think they know better than God Himself, thinking they can infer the date of the rapture from religious texts.
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