Individuals have been predicting the top of the world for about so long as humanity’s existed. This week, elements of TikTok are satisfied they have the date good for the Rapture: Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025. (As in tomorrow, or in the present day, or yesterday, or, you already know, weeks in the past, relying on while you’re studying this.)
Spend sufficient time on the app, and also you’re more likely to see people prepping for the Rapture or, maybe extra seemingly, different folks reacting to #RaptureTok. To be clear, there does appear to be a really actual facet of TikTok making ready for, of their minds, a really actual rapture. They’ve gone so far as to supply recommendation on how to be raptured, giving recommendation on issues like prepping others for his or her sudden departure or leaving their belongings accessible for the non-raptured.
Persons are additionally reacting to #RaptureTok, largely with a mocking tone. Some are joking about what they’re going to do to get raptured (develop into a Pokémon grasp) or what they’re going to seize as soon as the raptured go away (a pleasant automotive, perhaps?).
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There are additionally movies breaking down #RaptureTok and its many tentacles. Some believers, for example, have even claimed to have bought off their earthly possessions and posted a goodbye video — although that is the web, and folks will lie for consideration. So maintain that in thoughts as you scroll.
How did this all begin? It appears to stem from South African pastor Joshua Mhlakela, who claimed in a viral YouTube video that Jesus revealed to him that the Rapture would come on Sept. 23 and 24. These dates occur to additionally correspond to this 12 months’s Rosh Hashanah — the Jewish new 12 months — which is also referred to as the Feast of Trumpets, which some are taking because the trumpet name of God bringing the Christians to heaven.
That is the assumption behind the Christian Rapture: The saved will ascend, disappearing from earth, leaving everybody else behind. TikTok, as it’s wont to do, has run with the prediction and added to it, with a lot of people sharing their “analysis” or prep.
It is value noting that end-of-the-world predictions are fairly frequent. Bear in mind 2000, or 2012, or 1844, or 1524? It is one thing human beings appear hard-wired to do. So perhaps Tuesday would be the rapture, however I would not go and promote your automotive.
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