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The Rapture is an eschatological position held by some Christians, particularly those of American evangelicalism, consisting of an end-time event when all dead Christian believers will be resurrected and, joined with Christians who are still alive, together will rise "in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air."
The online index highlights the 45 signs of the rapture listed in the bible, such as "earth quakes" or "plagues," and scores them according to activity in the world. The numbers are then added ...
Frauenfelder, Mark (1996-12-12). "If Rapture Index is High, End of the World is At Hand". Wired.Archived from the original on 2002-07-24. The Rapture Index attempts to quantify the likelihood that the Rapture is about to take place, based on the observations of index creator Todd Strandberg, a 31-year-old Air Force sergeant stationed at Offutt Air Force base near Omaha, Nebraska.
There have been attempts to identify the origin of Darby's concept of the rapture – the belief that a core of Christian believers who have died will be raised from the dead, and believers who are still alive and remain shall be "caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air" (1 Thess 4:17) in conjunction with the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
Historic premillennialism is one of the two premillennial systems of Christian eschatology, with the other being dispensational premillennialism. [1] It differs from dispensational premillennialism in that it only has one view of the rapture, and does not require a literal seven-year tribulation (though some adherents do believe in a seven-year tribulation).
The Final Shout: Rapture Report 1989. Predicted that the Rapture would occur in 1989. Whisenant, Edgar C. (1993). 23 Reasons Why a Pre-Tribulation Rapture Looks Like it will Occur on Rosh-Hashanah 1993. Predicted that the Rapture would occur in 1993. Whisenant, Edgar C. (1994). And Now the Earth's Destruction by Fire, Nuclear Bomb Fire.
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Rapture anxiety is a psychological phenomenon characterized by an overwhelming fear or general anxiety concerning the Rapture, an event in dispensational and premillennial Christian eschatologies where it is believed that Jesus Christ will return to Earth and raise faithful Christians into heaven before the apocalypse.