Why is today "rature day"?

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?

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thunderfist@lemmy.world · 85 pts · 327d (1 reply)

A South African pastor had a dream and God told him the rapture was today. He posted and it went viral.

mesamunefire@piefed.social · 30 pts · 327d

Oh nice a real answer! Thanks :)

slazer2au@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 327d (8 replies)

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.

hperrin@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 327d (1 reply)

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.

Steve@startrek.website · 4 pts · 327d

No unusual missing person reports today. Hmmmm did you say “true” christians?

flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz · 12 pts · 327d

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

elvith@feddit.org · 10 pts · 327d (4 replies)

THE END IS NEAR!

^(what exactly is ending is subject to interpretation)^

showmeyourkizinti@startrek.website · 6 pts · 327d

All Hail Zorp!

Valmond@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 327d

The end of my lunch break 🫤

Demonmariner@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 327d

The end is near, for a given value of "near."

Facelesbutcher@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 325d

Will there be a cool Ender Dragon fight in the End?

MrFappy@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 327d (2 replies)

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.

slazer2au@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 327d (1 reply)

We watch if Australia goes offline then we know the hour.

Valmond@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 327d

Aah Y2K-Bug memories :-)

LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 327d (3 replies)

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.

VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 327d (2 replies)

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.

LadyButterfly@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 326d (1 reply)

I wish old testament God would come and smite them

Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 326d

Gonna take lots of warlocks and they will need lots of long rests

Kennystillalive@feddit.org · 22 pts · 327d (6 replies)

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.

Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 327d

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

Xaphanos@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 327d (3 replies)

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

skulblaka@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 327d (2 replies)

Why bother? Need money to get to Heaven?

Xaphanos@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 327d (1 reply)

Some are just giving it away. The rest... Well, they're not smart.

LadyButterfly@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 326d

No many aren't smart. It can also be MH or the effect of cult brainwashing though

frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 326d

That one guy sold his car, saying he wouldn't need it in heaven.

Like, OK, this is crazy, but they often have a certain internal logic going. I don't get this one. You don't need the car (presumably), but you don't need the money, either. Why bother?

showmeyourkizinti@startrek.website · 19 pts · 327d (4 replies)

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.

Hazmatastic@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 327d

Hail Zorp!

timhayes1991@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 327d (2 replies)

Better get your checkbooks ready!!

anubis119@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 327d

You can cash it tomorrow.

showmeyourkizinti@startrek.website · 4 pts · 327d

I’ve been carving flutes for the last six weeks.

betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 327d

People big dumb.

cyberwitch@reddthat.com · 15 pts · 327d

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.

jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 327d (9 replies)

It's not. It happened in 1988.

LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 327d (8 replies)

I thought it happened some December day in 2012?

RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 327d (1 reply)

Earth's timeline went terminal on July 5th, 1998.

LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 326d

July 5th 1998

This is the first I've ever heard about that. Let me think where was I on that date? I was an army soldier living in South Korea and we may have had a monsoon that summer where significant mudslides came down from the ouijongbu mountains then we spent a few days shoveling mud and there were rumors of previously-buried corpses that had slid down from the mountains but I never saw any. But that may have happened in April or May or june or August, I really don't remember.

Fredselfish@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 327d (5 replies)

It did you just didn't get taken.

mudstickmcgee@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 327d

Randy savage was the only one holy enough to be raptured then

LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 327d (3 replies)

Nor did anyone else.

Fredselfish@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 327d (2 replies)

Yep why we are living through hell now.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 327d

Before we were just living through hell for fun

LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 326d

I clearly recall my life was already hell before then.

Smokeydope@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 327d

Theres been at least 5 rapture days since ive been alive. Cult members REALLY like the idea that they're super special moral beings with Gods favor. For some reason people get off on the idea everyone they don't like or isn't part of their tribe gets locked out of 'paradise' or better yet actively burns in hell forever. This vengenance fantasy extends to the idea of rapture where God personally singles them out as a favored one for heavenly ascension or whatever. I guess theres something appealing about this concept that really resonates with the kind of people who drink the coolaid, they just can't let go and take the L. So we see the same story every 10 years or so a cult leader predicts the end of the world all their followers give up life savings destroy their life then when the day passes they quietly sweep it under the rug pretend it never happened to save themselves embarrassment.

Flax_vert@feddit.uk · 10 pts · 326d (2 replies)

What do your family members think of

Matthew 24:36 ESV

But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.

Treczoks@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 325d (1 reply)

Exactly that. AFAIK, the Catholic church (and maybe others too) condemns claiming to know rapture day as a sure sign of being a false prophet.

Flax_vert@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 325d

The Chinese State-run Church also does

HubertManne@piefed.social · 9 pts · 327d

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...

darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 327d (3 replies)
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Zorque@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 327d

That's the day M. Bison came to my village!

mesamunefire@piefed.social · 6 pts · 327d

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.

piwakawakas@lemmy.nz · 4 pts · 327d

Wednesday here, no rapture. Surprise surprise.

MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 327d (1 reply)
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SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 327d

yes-yes. Honor the great horned rat, by offer-giving cheese, man-thing!

FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 327d

Got me, I only heard about it yesterday

y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 327d

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.

Etterra@discuss.online · 5 pts · 326d

Stupid cultists. This exact thing has happened for thousands of years. Some years back one of these rapture cults popped up and I mentioned to my coworker that the world was ending. His response: when's it happening this time? Comedy gold.

DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 327d

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

RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com · 4 pts · 327d (2 replies)

you'll find out at 2:00PM PST ;)

jordanlund@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 327d

Well, shit, I knew I shouldn't have disabled push notifications...

possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 327d

huh, it's 0400 on wednesday in new york and everybody is still here sooo

HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 326d

Tiktok brain rot mixed with Christianity brain rot

ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 327d

Because these people think they know better than God Himself, thinking they can infer the date of the rapture from religious texts.

mugita_sokiovt@discuss.online · 3 pts · 327d (2 replies)
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jordanlund@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 327d (1 reply)

Yeah, the whole idea of the Rapture is extra-Biblical. Invented in 1830 by John Nelson Darby.

mugita_sokiovt@discuss.online · 1 pts · 327d
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jordanlund@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 327d

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.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/23/why-are-tiktok-conservatives-predicting-the-rapture-this-week

m3t00@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 325d
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HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 325d

Thanksgiving family dinner sure is going to be interesting.