The Rapture Already Happened (We Are All Left Behind)

May 26, 2011

In lieu of all those people out there who anticipated May 21 being the end of the World based on Family Radio http://www.familyradio.com (followers of Lloyd Lindquist and Harold Camping) - and that now we are in a 6 month grace period - here's some food for thought. The "Rapture" ALREADY happened. Check this out:

In the 1850's in Persia (Iran) 50,000+ people willingly allowed themselves to be skinned alive, have burning candles shoved into their bodies in holes carved with knives, have their feet peeled and then horse shoes nailed into them, have iron rods hammered through their ribs then made to stand up and run, all for the sake of the dawn of the Baha'i Faith. To this day, 1,000,000 Baha'is have allowed their lives to be terminated, their properties taken, their children thrown in prison, their spouses tortured and beaten, with ZERO violence in return all because they believe in the Baha'i Faith and will not recant because the Baha'i Faith proclaims this as the dawn of the most glorious age Man has ever seen and that Baha'u'llah is the Promised One, the Prince of Peace, for all ages.

That is the "Rapture" - to the furthest extent until the end of the World when the Sun dies in 5,000,000,000 years, that will remain as the time when the only possible "Rapture" occurred. You may not have heard about it, but that doesn't mean it did not happen.

To be clear, the word "Rapture" never appears in the bible, nor is there anywhere that Jesus, Daniel, Isiah, or any actual Prophet talk about any such event. And the word "Apocalypse" means lifting of the veil, not a cataclysmic ends of continents. All you Family Radio people out there, check your premises. You can still get on the arc headed for eternal glory but you have to choose the correct gang plank.

The passage in Thessolonians often referred to as the justification for the Rapture also never mentions the word rapture and is in fact Paul talking to the Thessolonians; Paul was an Apostle but Paul never met Jesus nor was Paul a Divinely inspired Prophet, so how anything Paul said could be taken as a means to understand the end times thousands of years later is really not understandable. Such a stretch of a conclusion would be called false, invalid or just completely wrong in any scientific or academic field and there are no instructions, hints, or inuendo in the bible anywhere saying to use Paul as a means to understand the prophecies of the end times which actual Divinely-inspired Prophets wrote about. Which again leads back to the unavoidable conclusion that the concept of the Rapture is a pure artificiality with no Divine authority of any sort behind it.

Now I am going to go enjoy Memorial Day and be glad I have not been hood-winked into believing such a confused silly business as the Rapture.