The Rapture

As the world slips into greater degrees of chaos and destruction, there’s a segment of society that welcomes this troubling time because they believe it will herald Jesus Christ’s return. I’ve written about this before, and my mind still conceives of the Rapture as something that happened in the first century of the Christian Era.

Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

1 Thessalonians 4:17

I watched a video today that tackles this idea head on:

In this video, some of the Bible references are re-examined, and it’s the verse before this one, shown above, that actually makes the most sense: in it, the interpretation is that the ‘military’ wording of the text invites us to imagine the emissaries of a Roman Conqueror (the Lord) coming to a small village, announcing his imminent arrival, and how the villagers will be elevated by his presence there, when he finally comes. That’s the hint that this was actually about Titus and his being Jesus resurrected. Now, doesn’t that make this whole idea of Rapture a nonsense?

Just sayin’.