Population issues on earth are about to be alleviated. Apparently

[Roland99]

Get Ready For Jesus: The Rapture Is April 23

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2018/04/get-ready-for-jesus-the-rapture-is-april-23/

Fox News reports the end of the world is April 23, according to prominent Christian numerologist David Meade:

For a certain branch of evangelical Christianity, Revelation 12:1–2 describes the beginning of what is known as the Rapture and the second coming of Christ.

The passage reads: “And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of 12 stars. She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pains and the agony of giving birth.”

In the passage, the woman is represented as Virgo.

According to Meade, the alignment represents “the Lion of the tribe of Judah,” marking the Rapture, the belief that Christ will bring the faithful into paradise prior to a period of tribulation on earth that precedes the end of time

[SharonAnn]

1. Come the Rapture, there will be lots of cars/trucks available. Maybe Houses, too?

[Opel_Justwax]

12. I have a friend that is a fundamentalist Christian and I asked him if I could have his

house when he is snatched up by Jesus.

[delisen]

13. We will have breathing room, & adequate housing and transportation.

Lots of scientists will be with us. The end times may rock.

[SuprstitionAintthWay]

19. I'm thinking yes... like esp. in the finale of The Leftovers, maybe.

If you haven't seen The Leftovers tv series, I liked and recommend it -- enigmatic sci-fi mystery, smarter than most, with an actually rather satisfying explanation at the end for what had been a very confounding, disturbing rupture in humankind's reality.

Yes there were vacancies... homes, cars, jobs, in marriages... after one October day when 2% of all people simultaneously just blipped out of existence globally. Not based on virtue, but randomly... it was no Rapture.

We find out in the finale of its 3 seasons that it could have been worse than being leftovers where they were.

I'm saying no more so as to not spoil ths show for those who still might watch it.

[lunatica]

2. They'll just kick the can down the road again when it doesn't happen

Maybe they’ll change the date to the Presidential Election Day in 2020.

[spanone]

3. I have an appt. with my cardiologist that day, I just cancelled!!!

[edhopper]

4. Will it be like the end of

Avengers Infinity War?

[Maeve]

5. At 60+, I have lived thru so freakin' many 'end of the world' predictions

And out-lived so many of the predictors....I can barely care enough to yawn at another one.

[GoCubsGo]

6. This time, it's really, really, really going to happen!

He swears!

[shraby]

7. He swears until he brings out his reason for it being wrong.

[Drahthaardogs]

8. Evangelical bullshit that no mainstream Christian Church believes in.

There is no Biblical reference to this nor is there a tradition that teaches this.

[Roland99]

9. It's a complete misuse of the Book of Revelation

Which was never intended as a prediction or foretelling of specific future events. Rather, merely to give hope to early Jesus movement / christians who were being persecuted by Rome et al

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

10. The rapture was never part of Christian theology till the 19th century

It was invented by John Nelson Darby.

It really upsets the evangelicals when they're told this.

[Arkansas Granny]

11. Relax, people. He says that's"fake news". The rapture will happen between May and December.

Reports that the world will end on Monday are incorrect, according to the man reported to have said the world will end on Monday.

Numerous news organizations reported this week that the world would be destroyed on 23 April, citing David Meade, a Christian conspiracy theorist who has made a number of incorrect predictions about the end of the world.

But in an interview with the Guardian, Meade described these reports as “fake news”.

Meade, who has written 14 books – mostly focused on the end of the world or the mysterious planet Nibiru, thought by some to be on a collision course with Earth –said he does not in fact believe the world will end on 23 April.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/19/david-meade-end-of-world-predictions-rapture

Well, that's a relief. I had already made other plans.

[delisen]

14. Was he just trying to scare us into being "good." nt

[Codeine]

15. I quit my job for nothing?!

Man, it’s like you can’t trust anybody these days. . .

[DontBooVote]

16. I hope this one is successful. It'll be nice to see Jesus in the flesh as he...

...comes to take God's favorite children (I'm sure Jeffress is one) to paradise in Heaven just before he smites the sinners with tribulations, followed by an eternity of pain in the fires of Hell, after dying 2019 years ago on a cross to forgive us and save us from our sins.

[Cold War Spook]

17. Mathew 24:36-25:30

Only God knows, not even Jesus knows. So I guess people who say when it will happen, think they are God.

[Turbineguy]

18. I don't think things are entirely in sync.

The tribulations started when trump was elected.

I'm certain that God can manage these things better.

[liberaltrucker]

20. Can I have his Ferrari after his rupture, er, rapture?

[GeorgeGist]

21. Oh Happy Day

[Tech]

22. Survived a couple of end of the world parties in the early 80's

We were kind of a crazy group, would celebrate everything. Don't think I could survive the alcohol abuse to my body anymore. Maybe just a toast with the husband, I think we still have some beer in the fridge from our riotous St Patrick's day celebration. If it does happen, well cheers