The biblical prophecy came true, or at least partly true. People disappeared, millions of them at the same time, all over the world. This was real. Skip to main content. Close close Donate. Close Close. One branch of Christian theology, dispensational premillennialism, holds that Christ will physically return to earth to sort the wicked from the godly before a tribulation, when anyone left behind will suffer various torments and plagues.
During the election, Lindsey wrote that Barack Obama was paving the way for the Antichrist. The literal-minded belief in how Judgment Day will go down got a darkly funny spin during one of the opening sequences of another HBO offering, Six Feet Under , in which a woman witnesses a bunch of inflatable sex dolls escaping into the sky from the back of a delivery truck, mistakes them for angels floating up to heaven, and gets so excited about the Second Coming that she runs fatally into the middle of oncoming traffic.
Contact us at letters time. By Dan Stewart. Related Stories. Already a print subscriber? All of this traumatic change in the United States will be compounded by the fact that hundreds of millions of believers around the world—possibly a billion people or more—will have suddenly disappeared at the exact same moment.
They will stop returning phone calls and e-mails. They will stop paying their bills and compensating their employees. They will stop being a force for good and hope in the world. They will simply be gone. The foreign-policy implications for the U. With such an immediate, enormous, and unprecedented shock to American society and economy from the loss of millions of people, it is difficult to imagine how the U.
How could we quickly replace all our Christian intelligence and foreign-policy officials who would suddenly be gone? How could we quickly replace all the officers and NCOs throughout the ranks of our military who are born-again believers?
With all the resulting chaos and dislocation caused by the Rapture, how could the U. How could we defend our own homeland? By Joel C. Rosenberg, Tyndale House Publishers. What Will Happen to America after the Rapture? Story Categories. Search Submit.
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