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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/us/rapture-tiktok-sept-23.html

The Rapture is upon us, according to TikTokers, some of whom have latched on to a prediction that on Tuesday, Sept. 23 — today — Jesus Christ will return to Earth and take true believers to Heaven.

Some evangelical Christians believe the Bible predicts such an event, known as the Rapture, which essentially marks the beginning of the end of human history. They interpret parts of the Christian New Testament as describing the Rapture, including a passage from First Thessalonians that says followers of Christ “who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.”

It is not uncommon for various individuals and groups to predict specific dates for the Rapture, sometimes through interpreting passages and events in the Bible, and sometimes claiming they received visions. None of the predictions have obviously come to pass. In recent days, a prediction spread through social media that the Rapture would occur Tuesday, and on TikTok, the hashtag #rapturenow has over 311,000 videos — some of which endorsed the prediction, while many others poked fun at it.

For those who believe in the prediction, the TikTokers had some advice: Don’t make any weekend plans, leave your phone unlocked and your passwords accessible for those left behind, and maybe leave your house and car unlocked. With the keys easily accessible if possible.

Why today?
The date of Sept. 23, 2025, appears to have originated from Joshua Mhlakela of South Africa. Though news reports have widely described him as a pastor, he said in a YouTube video from June: “I’m just a simple person, no title. I’m not an apostle, I’m not a pastor, I’m not a bishop. I’m just a believer.”

In the video, he says that Jesus came to him in a dream in 2018 and told him, “On the 23rd and the 24th of September, 2025, I will come to take my church.”

The context, as Mr. Mhlakela understood it, was the 2026 FIFA World Cup. “He was telling me that by June 2026, the world is gearing up toward the World Cup,” he said, but because chaos would descend after the Rapture, “there will be no World Cup in 2026.”

His prediction somehow gathered momentum on the internet. Searches for “rapture” and “the rapture Tuesday” started to climb around Sept. 20, according to Google Trends.

While some TikTok creators appeared to believe that the Rapture was imminent and were encouraging their followers to convert to Christianity, more greeted the prediction with satirical advice.

One creator said that those who wanted to ensure they would ascend to Heaven should place items that might contain demonic energy, like designer clothing, outside their houses. Another discussed how to style outfits to match the angel wings they would soon receive.

 

 

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Can’t remember where I saw this, but it’s not on this thread. Claim is a couple brought their kids to CPS, and handed them over, to make sure their kids were cared for after the parents left with the rapture. Wild.

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30 minutes ago, Ted Lange said:

I am hoping that the raptue takes away the people who keep trying to embed pictures from yarn 

Sometimes it works!

1 hour ago, bolverk said:

For those who believe in the prediction, the TikTokers had some advice: Don’t make any weekend plans, leave your phone unlocked and your passwords accessible for those left behind, and maybe leave your house and car unlocked. With the keys easily accessible if possible.

Big lol. What could go wrong?

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Wish it would happen just to laugh at all these morons who think they deserve a great afterlife while living such a shitty, hateful life. 

Or if they did get taken we wouldn't have to deal with them anymore and could fix the country. Win either way. 

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See, I knew without question Y2K was a bunch of bullshit, but this Rapture thing . . . man, I'm not sure.  I've put all my Satan clothes in a bunch of trash bags on the curb and I've put all my car keys and (in a minute) my phone on the front porch, but is that enough?  Dammit, if I get left behind and DON'T have any clothes or a car or my phone I am gonna be super pissed.

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2 hours ago, bolverk said:

It is not uncommon for various individuals and groups to predict specific dates for the Rapture, sometimes through interpreting passages and events in the Bible, and sometimes claiming they received visions. None of the predictions have obviously come to pass. In recent days, a prediction spread through social media that the Rapture would occur Tuesday, and on TikTok, the hashtag #rapturenow has over 311,000 videos — some of which endorsed the prediction, while many others poked fun at it.

 

Grade A reporting right here.

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2 hours ago, bolverk said:

The Rapture is upon us, according to TikTokers, some of whom have latched on to a prediction that on Tuesday, Sept. 23 — today — Jesus Christ will return to Earth and take true believers to Heaven.

I'm suddenly feeling better about the midterms.

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I remember being a 10, and my mom preparing for the rapture in September of 1994. She was so sure of it because some guy just knew it was going to happen and predicted the day, and said it would be in the evening around 6pm. Time came and went, nothing happened, pastor guy claims he must have mistaken something, but the new date is very soon! So for the next few years every few months, there would be a new FOR SURE Rapture Day coming!  It was super weird, and a lot of why I hate religion now. That's a really weird and evil thing to tell a kid about, set expectations and then have them fail every time. It undermines the credibility of the parent and the religion, and will cause a whole lot of questions that may otherwise not come up. Anyways, it's been 30 years and my mom still comes up with some wacky rapture predictions a few times a year. She's got the faith and intelligence of Lloyd Christmas. 

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Well crap, they ignored me again.  Wish my last name started with a fkn "A" instead of the bottom level listing I fall under.>:(

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1 hour ago, Dutchrudder said:

I remember being a 10, and my mom preparing for the rapture in September of 1994. She was so sure of it because some guy just knew it was going to happen and predicted the day, and said it would be in the evening around 6pm. Time came and went, nothing happened, pastor guy claims he must have mistaken something, but the new date is very soon! So for the next few years every few months, there would be a new FOR SURE Rapture Day coming!  It was super weird, and a lot of why I hate religion now. That's a really weird and evil thing to tell a kid about, set expectations and then have them fail every time. It undermines the credibility of the parent and the religion, and will cause a whole lot of questions that may otherwise not come up. Anyways, it's been 30 years and my mom still comes up with some wacky rapture predictions a few times a year. She's got the faith and intelligence of Lloyd Christmas. 

Props to you for getting through that kind of shit in childhood. 

 

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3 hours ago, Dutchrudder said:

I remember being a 10, and my mom preparing for the rapture in September of 1994. She was so sure of it because some guy just knew it was going to happen and predicted the day, and said it would be in the evening around 6pm. Time came and went, nothing happened, pastor guy claims he must have mistaken something, but the new date is very soon! So for the next few years every few months, there would be a new FOR SURE Rapture Day coming!  It was super weird, and a lot of why I hate religion now. That's a really weird and evil thing to tell a kid about, set expectations and then have them fail every time. It undermines the credibility of the parent and the religion, and will cause a whole lot of questions that may otherwise not come up. Anyways, it's been 30 years and my mom still comes up with some wacky rapture predictions a few times a year. She's got the faith and intelligence of Lloyd Christmas. 

If someone said to me a poster here had this background I would have sworn it was an incredulty or zeus type nutter. 

That shit would suck as a kid. My friend grew up Jehovas Witness and his parents didnt give half a shit if he graduated or went to school at all because it was unnecessary. Since the world would be ending and their god would be setting up a paradise for only the Jehovas any day now. Dude ended up graduating from UT and becoming a silicon valley programmer. 

Guess there's a lot of nature that can overcome the nurture if it's strong enough. 

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5 minutes ago, Bookman said:

I hope someday that forcing your religion on a child is considered abuse. 

What about Santa Claus?????!!!!!

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This rapture shit has always been a weird American Christianity take. Y'all realize that this is totally foreign to most Christians expressions, right?

6 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

What about Santa Claus?????!!!!!

He punched Arius. 

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12 minutes ago, Bookman said:

I hope someday that forcing your religion on a child is considered abuse. 

What brand of fundamentalist nonsense were you raise in?

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4 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

See, I knew without question Y2K was a bunch of bullshit, but this Rapture thing . . . man, I'm not sure.  I've put all my Satan clothes in a bunch of trash bags on the curb and I've put all my car keys and (in a minute) my phone on the front porch, but is that enough?  Dammit, if I get left behind and DON'T have any clothes or a car or my phone I am gonna be super pissed.

Pics of car(s) and address please...

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4 minutes ago, Kyrie Eleison said:

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Goddamnit I got it printed on a motherfucking t shirt. Don't try to take this away from me. 

 

St. Nicholas and Arius at the Council of Nicea | Charlotte Riggle

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3 hours ago, Dutchrudder said:

I remember being a 10, and my mom preparing for the rapture in September of 1994. She was so sure of it because some guy just knew it was going to happen and predicted the day, and said it would be in the evening around 6pm. Time came and went, nothing happened, pastor guy claims he must have mistaken something, but the new date is very soon! So for the next few years every few months, there would be a new FOR SURE Rapture Day coming!  It was super weird, and a lot of why I hate religion now. That's a really weird and evil thing to tell a kid about, set expectations and then have them fail every time. It undermines the credibility of the parent and the religion, and will cause a whole lot of questions that may otherwise not come up. Anyways, it's been 30 years and my mom still comes up with some wacky rapture predictions a few times a year. She's got the faith and intelligence of Lloyd Christmas. 

Epstein and Trump would like to see pics.

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1 hour ago, Bookman said:

I hope someday that forcing your religion on a child is considered abuse. 

Well, here's how Austria handles that in their constitution:  Parents decide their child's confession up to age ten, but by age fourteen, the child has the legal right to choose their own religion, free from parental or external imposition.

(and Austria is not, shall we say, a particularly liberal nation)

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11 minutes ago, flatdawgs said:

Well, here's how Austria handles that in their constitution:  Parents decide their child's confession up to age ten, but by age fourteen, the child has the legal right to choose their own religion, free from parental or external imposition.

(and Austria is not, shall we say, a particularly liberal nation)

That sounds like some crackhead shit. 

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11 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

The concept imagined by a South African is an "American" Christian oddity.  Solid contribution.

The rapture as a concept within western christianity is an imagination of a south african? WTF?

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10 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

The rapture as a concept within western christianity is an imagination of a south african? WTF?

Not the second coming in general, this particular iteration.  Each one is a reboot, and (strangely) wrong.



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