John D. Brey
Well-Known Member
For the sake of non-bible-thumper types, the "Rapture" is an event that takes place at the end of the current epoch of human civilization that's the bookend (the Rapture is) to Noah's flood at the other end (the distant past) of the current historical time-frame. In the biblical books of Daniel (the Tanakh) and Revelation (the NT) numerous events in the final years of the current civilization are noted that we can now see are not as strange and mystical as they originally seemed before the advent of the most recent scientific age.
For instance, the book of Revelation says the ruler of the unified European common market of the time will cause everyone to include a particular number or marker in their hand or forehead without which their normal ability to purchase goods and services will cease. No more Amazon. No more non-cash purchases whatsoever. Furthermore, the same text claims some kind of artificial intelligence will be used to monitor not only the purchases of every person included in the marketplace, but every single thing they do, watch, say; information which will then be put into a powerful algorithm (AI augmented super quantum computer) that will determine that some, if not many, of those so monitored, must be eliminated for the good of the beastly golden age. The text is not shy about stating that they will be eliminated and that presumably the elimination is fairly clean and easy as though it's affected through the chip placed in their hand or forehead.
For bible-thumper-types that's pretty much all common knowledge. And the relationship between what only one-hundred years ago seemed like mystical events with no knowable, actual, significance, versus the clear analogues in modern science and current events, is easily digested.
Which leads to the question posed in this thread. What's the modern, scientific, event, that's described in the Bible, and which has come to be named the "Rapture"? What kind of event, what actual technology, could account for millions of people suddenly and instantaneously (in the blink of an eye) disappearing without a trace? In the Biblical concept of the Rapture, the people aren't incinerated or eliminated by some unknown technology possessed by the same leaders who eliminate those who refuse to be vaccinated with a number in their hand or forehead since the Rapture occurs just prior to the finishing touches being put on the leadership of the completed European union.
In the Bible, the Rapture is a worldwide event that sets off tectonic shifts in politics, economics, society in general, seemingly implying that the intelligentsia of the world knows something about what caused the Rapture, and what it entails for the world, such that the leaders of the world who don't take part in the Rapture unite in an attempt to fix whatever caused the Rapture, or prepare for the return of those who weren't left behind?
But what, in a non-mystical sense, i.e., what, with what we're now learning about physics, reality, technology, is the Rapture?
John
For instance, the book of Revelation says the ruler of the unified European common market of the time will cause everyone to include a particular number or marker in their hand or forehead without which their normal ability to purchase goods and services will cease. No more Amazon. No more non-cash purchases whatsoever. Furthermore, the same text claims some kind of artificial intelligence will be used to monitor not only the purchases of every person included in the marketplace, but every single thing they do, watch, say; information which will then be put into a powerful algorithm (AI augmented super quantum computer) that will determine that some, if not many, of those so monitored, must be eliminated for the good of the beastly golden age. The text is not shy about stating that they will be eliminated and that presumably the elimination is fairly clean and easy as though it's affected through the chip placed in their hand or forehead.
For bible-thumper-types that's pretty much all common knowledge. And the relationship between what only one-hundred years ago seemed like mystical events with no knowable, actual, significance, versus the clear analogues in modern science and current events, is easily digested.
Which leads to the question posed in this thread. What's the modern, scientific, event, that's described in the Bible, and which has come to be named the "Rapture"? What kind of event, what actual technology, could account for millions of people suddenly and instantaneously (in the blink of an eye) disappearing without a trace? In the Biblical concept of the Rapture, the people aren't incinerated or eliminated by some unknown technology possessed by the same leaders who eliminate those who refuse to be vaccinated with a number in their hand or forehead since the Rapture occurs just prior to the finishing touches being put on the leadership of the completed European union.
In the Bible, the Rapture is a worldwide event that sets off tectonic shifts in politics, economics, society in general, seemingly implying that the intelligentsia of the world knows something about what caused the Rapture, and what it entails for the world, such that the leaders of the world who don't take part in the Rapture unite in an attempt to fix whatever caused the Rapture, or prepare for the return of those who weren't left behind?
But what, in a non-mystical sense, i.e., what, with what we're now learning about physics, reality, technology, is the Rapture?
John
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