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Is the world going to end THIS MONTH? Conspiracy theorists claim biblical Rapture [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | April 12, 2018 | Cheyenne McDonald

Posted on 04/12/2018 7:23:06 AM PDT by C19fan

Conspiracy theorists have sparked fresh fears that the end of the world is fast approaching.

On April 23, the sun, moon, and Jupiter will align in the constellation Virgo to bring on the start of the biblical Rapture, according to the latest claims.

And, that night, it's said the mysterious planet Nibiru will appear in the sky, followed by the onset of World War III, rise of the Antichrist, and seven years of Tribulation.

While the predictions are certainly alarming, you probably don't have to start bracing for the apocalypse just yet.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: davidmeade; end; endtimes; nibiru; rapture
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To: Genoa

I agree. “Conspiracy theory” is not an accurate description. I would label it as fringe pseudo Christian theology.


81 posted on 04/12/2018 8:33:18 AM PDT by NRx (A man of integrity passes his father's civilization to his son, without selling it off to strangers.)
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To: C19fan
The whole Rapture concept has only been around since mid-19th century.

Demonstrably false ...

82 posted on 04/12/2018 8:38:04 AM PDT by dartuser
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To: UCANSEE2
Ever notice that those who keep predicting the Rapture/End of the World scenario are also the ones totally convinced they are going to be one of the 144,000 raptured ?

I don't know of any biblical scholar that teaches only 144k are raptured.

83 posted on 04/12/2018 8:41:07 AM PDT by dartuser
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To: C19fan

[Quote-On April 23, the sun, moon, and Jupiter will align in the constellation Virgo]

The astronomy app I see has the sun traveling ‘through’ the Ram (Aries) that day, not Virgo (the Woman)

Not sure what these folks are seeing. Maybe the author flubbed the predicter’s message a little.
The sun doesn’t travel in the constellation Virgo until the fall (which folks noted as the Revelation 12 sign back in 2017)

I stumbled into that sign back in 2014 and saw the woman, clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet.

It seemed to happen, in some form or fashion, every year since.

And the days it has happened means something,but maybe only Muslims would even acknowledge the day.

Considering Muslims don’t read the New Testament, they certainly don’t or won’t seek to understand the meaning of it. But they seem to have company.


84 posted on 04/12/2018 8:44:36 AM PDT by delchiante
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85 posted on 04/12/2018 8:45:36 AM PDT by Rio (I was deplorable when deplorable wasn't cool.)
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86 posted on 04/12/2018 8:46:34 AM PDT by Rio (I was deplorable when deplorable wasn't cool.)
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To: rebel25

The word does exist in the latin Vulgate (rapturos) in the Thessalonians passages from a greek word which meant “to be carried or snatched away” The KJV translators translated those latin and greek words into English words we see to day as “carried away or lift up”. That is why the term “rapture” is used today as a hangover from the Catholic vulgate Bible. Rapturos in the latin simply means to be “carried or lifted away”! (”Rapt” is the root..to carry”. We call Hawks and Eagles “raptors’ as the attack from the air and carry off their prey)(

We “modern types” use the term “rapture” as a way of describing a joyful or exuberant level of emotional experience which has “carried us” away from our normal everyday level of composure. Such as “As Hitler spoke, one felt a chill of fear as one observed the look of unworldly rapture on the faces of the cheering crowd”. Or “She felt enraptured as her lover sang to her from below her balcony”

The rapture is a prophesied fact...but perhaps it will happen during some of those “feast days” you mentioned!


87 posted on 04/12/2018 8:47:27 AM PDT by mdmathis6 (Men and Devils can't out-"alinsksy" God! He knows where "all the bodies are buried!")
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To: Boogieman
When it comes to date-setting and forcing your own meaning on to Biblical text, if at first you don’t succeed, DO NOT try and try again!

Well said ...

But it does provide introductory discussion for eschatology Sunday School class every week.

88 posted on 04/12/2018 8:48:22 AM PDT by dartuser
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To: C19fan

In a year holding a three, or seven,
or five, or nine, or maybe not,
Two things, might be people, or armies,
or buildings,
Or anything really, blades of grass,
or stoats, or crapulous charlatans
spouting mimsy,
Might do something nebulous.
Insert made-up-bit here.

—Generic Nostradamus Quatrain from The Guardian (UK)


89 posted on 04/12/2018 8:49:09 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Liberals have become moralistic, dogmatic, sententious, self-righteous, pinch-faced prudes.)
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To: Boogieman
Hmm, maybe the rapture did really happen then and that is why none of the FReepers who were so adamant about it being true have been speaking up lately...

You can support the rapture and not be on board with these date setters ... there are many of us in that camp.

The rapture is an imminent event ... no cosmic signs required, no building of a temple required, no anti-Christ required, etc. ... NOTHING has to happen prior to an imminent event or it is not imminent.

90 posted on 04/12/2018 8:52:00 AM PDT by dartuser
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To: fwdude

• 1 Corinthians 15:51-52, “Lo! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.”


91 posted on 04/12/2018 8:52:34 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: C19fan

The world ended already...

It’s only a matter of tense.


92 posted on 04/12/2018 8:53:31 AM PDT by infool7 (Observe, Orient, Pray, Decide, Act!(it's an OOPDA loop))
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To: FourtySeven
This has been Christian understanding and tradition concerning eschatology for almost 2,000 years. As was pointed out upthread, the idea of a “rapture”, as in a half return of Jesus, wasn’t “discovered” until the 19th century.

At least go educate yourself ... you people who continue to claim this just look silly now ...

Go spend some time up on pre-trib.org and at least realize you are ignorantly (i'm assuming) propagating a myth.

93 posted on 04/12/2018 8:54:50 AM PDT by dartuser
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To: tired&retired

Really?

• 1 Corinthians 15:51-52, “Lo! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.”


94 posted on 04/12/2018 8:55:08 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: C19fan

Quick! find out real quick! I gotta know! if the world is going to end I’m not sending in my mortgage payment and I’m not renewing my subscription to “Survival In the End Times Before The Rapture.”


95 posted on 04/12/2018 8:57:22 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left. PS. f*ck the media.)
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To: C19fan
The Rapture isn't the end of the world...that's 1007 years later.

And given the comments and the general condition of the culture, it won't be that much of a dent in the population.

Hopefully PDJT and his lovely family will come with us - whenever it happens - so that should make the pagans happy...for a short time.

96 posted on 04/12/2018 9:00:15 AM PDT by meowmeow (In Loving Memory of Our Dear Viking Kitty (1987-2006))
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To: C19fan

Pay no heed to this prediction. The sun will be in Aries, not Virgo, on April 23. And Nibiru doesn’t exist.


97 posted on 04/12/2018 9:04:44 AM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: C19fan
On April 23, the sun, moon, and Jupiter will align in the constellation Virgo to bring on the start of the biblical Rapture

The Rapture is not the end of the world.

98 posted on 04/12/2018 9:05:06 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perhaps we should care less about who we may offend and care more about who we may inspire.)
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To: C19fan

Whatever brings Him back, I welcome it.


99 posted on 04/12/2018 9:07:03 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: C19fan

I for one welcome our new Nibiruan overlords...


100 posted on 04/12/2018 9:07:53 AM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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