Are You Rapture Ready?
I recently came across a reference in a book to “RaptureReady.com,” and The Rapture Index; I knew right then that I needed to share this with as many people as possible.
This description of The Rapture Index comes from the site: “You could say the Rapture index is a Dow Jones Industrial Average of end time activity, but I think it would be better if you viewed it as prophetic speedometer. The higher the number, the faster we’re moving towards the occurrence of pre-tribulation rapture.”
The Rapture Index is currently at 169 out of 225. It has increased every year for the past several, but still isn’t as high as it’s all-time high of 182 in September, 2001. The creator of this site describes his efforts as an attempt to decrease the arbitrariness involved in the study of prophetic activity that may signal the apocalypse.
Here are my top five observations about the Rapture Index:
- Using diplomacy with Iran and getting them to open up their nuclear program looks like a definite precursor to the endtimes (see under the category of “leadership”).
- There has been a “rash of crimes related to witchcraft.”
- Global warming is not occuring.
- Ecumenism deserves its own category to track those evil cooperative alliances between religious groups.
- Under the category of “Beast Government” is this explanation for it’s 4 out of 5 rating: “EU p[ens a new treaty.” The EU is the beast government.
I hope you all enjoy RaptureReady.com. I really do wonder how many people believe in this type of eschatology and how many people follow sites like this for information about the pending apocalypse. I don’t mean to mock these people too much, but it does frighten me to think that very many of them could be in this country, voting, and even in the current administration. But just in case they are right, are you rapture ready?
Woah - for a second there I thought your post might be serious. whew.
crazygina
2 Jul 08 at 4:23 pm
David
Thanks for visiting downintheblog.com!
If you are interested, I would love to do an audio interview with you for our site. It should drive some traffic to your site as well!
Let me know
rodney.mccarthy@yahoo.com
Rodney McCarthy
2 Jul 08 at 9:03 pm
Your readers would probably get a kick out of going to Google and typing in “The Rapture Index (Mad Theology)” and “Open Letter to Todd Strandberg.” Also, “Pretrib Rapture Diehards” and “Famous Rapture Watchers” are good Google items also. Jon
Jon Edwards
3 Jul 08 at 12:44 am
It’s a coming, folks!
S.C. Denney
3 Jul 08 at 1:13 am
@1
Maybe I should have been more clear. But then again, if anyone is curious, they could probably browse any of the other theological posts I have ever written, and figure it out in 2 seconds.
David M. Manes
3 Jul 08 at 1:51 am
hey, cool post! The Pitch just did a story that is pretty funny about a atheist on craigslist who is advertising to take care of your pets once the rapture is happening and charging a $50 deposit to do so. Here is the link if you want to check it out…http://www.pitch.com.
Hannah Zimmerman
22 Jul 08 at 2:20 pm
Please do not base your opinion of Christians, or Christianity by what you’ll see on RaptureReady.com
They are, for the most part, a bunch of legalistic, self-righteous, mean-spirited jerks who run off at the mouth about Jesus and how we are to follow Him, yet fail to do that themselves in their… “administration”.
You’re much better off at EndTimesRoundTable.com.
WhatsThatSmell
24 Aug 08 at 2:14 pm
I can’t figure out if that last comment is for real or not…
David M. Manes
24 Aug 08 at 2:44 pm