Harold Camping, our latest rapture predictor, saw his dates come and go, and still he remains. Obviously, he got the date wrong, very wrong. Not so obvious is that he also got the meaning of rapture wrong, along with all the other rapture predictors, theologians, and linguists. The men of faith (I’m unaware of a single female predicting the date of the rapture) are of two sorts: those with unreliable sources, and those who are simply charlatans. The scholars and linguists on the other hand are victims of a cover up so vast and ancient that they cannot be rightly be blamed for their naiveté. Academically trained persons are committed to research, fact checking, rational and critical thought. Often these disciplines lead to meaningful and reliable revelation, but when the very sources of information have been planted and tainted, those encumbered with an academic commitment to rationality and reason are unable to see through the ruse, and instead become unwitting agents of the deception.
To truly understand the misunderstandings and false predictions of the rapture noumenon, one must go way back, and completely suspend all factual constructs and rational thought, for every existing empirical source on the subject has been tampered with, or purely manufactured. The only primary source for the rapture is the Holy Scripture, a collection of documents that clergy rely on unquestionably. And while many of these clergy are also unencumbered by a commitment to rationality, they have been duped because their source document in the language they can understand is based on false translations. Every word in The Bible truly is the word of God, but the translation of those words was subverted by Lucifer herself. Until recently, even the fact that Lucifer is a woman has been hidden, but the truth is slowly coming out of the closet, in large part because of the recent rapture.
Anyone familiar with The Bible knows that Lucifer was cast out of Heaven, but few know the true reason why (this story will be covered in a later edition). After she was cast out for her aspirations, her bitterness grew to monstrous proportions. Her acrimony drove her to engage in destructive behavior, disrupting the peace of the spirit world, and her new homeland became known as Hell. After Earth was created, Lucifer, still intensely bitter, turned her rage towards God’s creations. The prophet, William Congreve, received a message which he shared with world, “Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned/ Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.” According to our nonexistent source, “Lucifer had the original message altered, she can do that you know. What Billy [William Congreve] was told was, ‘…for Hell is the fallout of a woman scorned.’” God, in his eternal mercy and kindness, has remained on speaking terms with Lucifer, and occasionally meets with her.
While the translation of The Bible is flawed, it still contains useful revelations. The story of Job in particular reveals the source of the trouble. Lucifer convinced God to “test” Job. What is left out of that story is that there was a bet, a bet which Lucifer won, and God, honorable as ever, has never reneged on payment of the debt. Lucifer won the ability to alter, not The Bible itself, but the language sources used to translate the source documents. The definition of the Greek term which has been translated to connote a rapid or sudden snatching up, actually refers to a process that occurs in spurts over time. The rapture has already occurred, and it has occurred many times. And what is “caught up” is not the body of the persons involved, but rather the Godliness, or goodness in the individuals effected. God truly does love this world, and his children, and has attempted to instill us with love and kindness, a soul. But God is also wrathful when his gifts are rejected, so periodically, he recalls the souls in those who have displeased Him. What are left behind are nasty persons with the ability to do great harm.
There was a rapture after World War I, which led to the holocaust. The latest rapture occurred in the late 1990’s, setting the stage for the disasters we are still experiencing today. Without their souls, men with ambition and power were able to commit heinous acts such as 9/11, and back securities with subprime mortgages, get them triple A rated, and sell them to unsuspecting buyers around the world. Harold Camping was right that a rapture would occur, he was just wrong about what a rapture actually is, and late in noticing that it already happened, again.