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Prophet Faces Backlash After Failed April 25 Rapture Prediction {the rapture was on 25th April 2024}
Leadership.ng ^ | Nafisat Abdulrahman

Posted on 07/05/2024 5:10:21 AM PDT by Cronos

A Nigerian prophet has come under intense scrutiny after his prediction that the rapture and the end of the world would coincide on April 25, 2024, failed to materialise.

Despite proclaiming to have been shown the date through divine revelations during trances, the prophet’s claims have sparked a mixture of ridicule and criticism across social media platforms.

The prophet, with the handle @Prophetmetu on X, claimed he experienced the visions on two separate occasions, expressed his own trepidation about the revelations.

In his statement, he emphasised the clarity of his visions, where he saw two distinct mountains and felt a strong divine message. He urged both believers and skeptics alike to prepare for the imminent event.

“If you like take it serious, if you like don’t take it serious, but this is real: rapture is coming on the 25th of April, 2024. I saw it very clear. I saw the date very clear, the Lord ministered it to me twice, it has happened twice,” he declared.

As the day progressed with no signs of the prophesied rapture, social media users began to question the timing and validity of the prediction, leading to widespread discussions about the reliability of such prophetic claims in modern times.


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1 posted on 07/05/2024 5:10:21 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: Cronos

Yet another false prophet.


2 posted on 07/05/2024 5:12:32 AM PDT by BlackVeil ('The past is never dead. It's not even past.' William Faulkner)
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To: Cronos

Silly prophet. He had to know that he didn’t know. Nobody will know.


3 posted on 07/05/2024 5:12:58 AM PDT by JudyinCanada (The left is loathsome, beyond anything I could have believed.)
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To: Cronos

In a normal society, we would be able to apply this same standard of disbelief to climate alarmists.

But the best we can do is joke about it.


4 posted on 07/05/2024 5:21:43 AM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: Cronos

is it time to pray?


5 posted on 07/05/2024 5:23:04 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: Cronos

“A Nigerian prophet” - sends off alarm bells; likely he has cousins who want to give away millions of dollars and just needs your personal information.


6 posted on 07/05/2024 5:25:19 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: BlackVeil

He needs to contact any Word of Faith/New Apostolic Reformation megachurch prophet/pastor/evangelist for instruction on how to be less specific on details when they ‘prophesy’.

A lot of them have learned the hard way not to be so specific. Some of the ‘word salad’ prophecies from these fakes are designed to convince the gullible.


7 posted on 07/05/2024 5:38:12 AM PDT by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: JonPreston

It is always time to pray.


8 posted on 07/05/2024 5:41:55 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Cronos

Maybe the Rapture already happened and nobody noticed.

144,000 people disappearing in a world of 8 billion could easily go unnoticed.


9 posted on 07/05/2024 5:43:23 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Cronos

Out of the 7+ billion people on Earth, perhaps the 144,000 or so to be raptured escaped his detection. Or maybe they’re still on the way to our southern border???

/sarc


10 posted on 07/05/2024 5:43:56 AM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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To: Cronos

He needs to shift to global warming predictions. You can be wrong and no one cares. You simply name another date.


11 posted on 07/05/2024 5:52:08 AM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
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To: Cronos

“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.”

― Yogi Berra


12 posted on 07/05/2024 6:12:32 AM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: Cronos

The signs He describes have always been ever present in some corner of the World, but Christ is very direct in His statement that no one can know when the End is come.

All the Doomsday prophets and ordinary, good Christians fretting and worrying over and predicting the End are ignoring His teaching.

Relax, live a good life and prepare for your own death. Leave the death of the World to the Lord.


13 posted on 07/05/2024 6:16:06 AM PDT by Quentin Quarantino
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To: BlackVeil

Matthew 24:36. “No one knows when that day or time will be. The Son and the angels in heaven don’t know when it will be. Only the Father knows.“

One thing I do know…Jesus will not come on a day declared by some wack job saying “this is the day.”


14 posted on 07/05/2024 6:26:03 AM PDT by yukong
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To: Cronos

If only global warming liars were held to the same standard!


15 posted on 07/05/2024 6:33:55 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Cronos

I still have a page from an old radical newspaper showing the end of this world in 1984. Didn’t happen. I enjoy referring to it when a “end of times” prophecy does not come true.
Also have my booklets WHY THE RAPTURE WILL BE IN 1988!. So many predictions so many failures.
Jesus said no man, not even himself knows when the end times will be, but only his Father in Heaven. So live as if the “ruler gone on a journey” suddenly returns and finds you beating other servants.


16 posted on 07/05/2024 6:34:01 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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To: Pontiac

I doubt if there is 144,000 virgin males of the 12 Tribes around. One religious group believes only 144,000 will be saved.


17 posted on 07/05/2024 6:35:44 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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To: BlackVeil

“20 But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.’ 21 And if you say in your heart, ‘How shall we know the word which the Lord has not spoken?’— 22 when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the thing does not happen or come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.”

Deuteronomy 18:20-22


18 posted on 07/05/2024 6:38:34 AM PDT by 728b (Never cry over something that can not cry over you.)
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To: Cronos

They are all false


19 posted on 07/05/2024 6:39:32 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: Cronos

Tish B’Av


20 posted on 07/05/2024 6:42:22 AM PDT by Manic_Episode (A government of the government, by the government, for the government)
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