I am out of the loop. How did today become rapture day? I am having family members being silly about this. How did this even start?

  • thunderfist@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    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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    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.

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      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.

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      What do you mean? Every rapture day has been absolutely true. We’ve been raptured many times so far, like every other year.

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    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.

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    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.

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      18 hours ago

      If they actually believe that bullshit, chances are pretty good they’re already harming their kids psychologically at the very least.

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      16 hours ago

      I’ve heard that in some places Facebook marketplace is really busy as they’re dumping all physical possessions.

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    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.

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    18 hours ago

    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…

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    19 hours ago

    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.

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    Because religious people are stupid and easily manipulated. Hence why they are religious to begin with.

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    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.