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I assume that you are all aware that, according to Family Radio founder Harold Camping -predicts the Rapture will occur at 6:00 PM tomorrow evening. I am not certain about time zones. Jesus may raise the dead all at once, or on a three hour tape delay for the west coast. check your local listings.

The Rapture is a fairly new concept as far as Christian theology is concerned. The idea of the Second Coming was championed by evangelist Cotton Mather in the 18th century based on I Thessalonians 4:15-17:

"For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. "

There are at least three Pre-Millenialiat theories and where the rapture fits in with End time events and how many returns of Christ there will actually be. The Post-Milltnnialists Scoff. the Pan-Millennialists like myself are not interested because it will all pan out in the end regardless.

I have grown up around a small army of Pre-Millennialist, Bob Jones University types who favorite hobby, like Campings’, is to predict the day and time of the Rapture, usually using world events that appear to fit gloom and doom Biblical prophecy, but occasionally going on an epiphany due to anything from a tent revival to a flash of heartburn. God works in mysterious ways, does He not? This pastime is extremely popular in spite of Jesus’ own words in Matthew 24;36:

"But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only."

For Biblical literalists, these Christians do not take the word all that literally.

What I can virtually guarantee you is that right now, there are a huge amount of pre-Millennialist anxiety out there among rapture adherents because of barack Obama’s recent betrayal of Israel. Obama has shifted United states policy away from support of Israel to a Palestinian state, thereby making this administration the most anti-Israel in US history. Far more so than runner up Bush 41, who would have been more than happy to allow Iraqi Scuds to strike civilian areas as long as the Israeli Defense force stayed out of the Gulf War. He possessed a hint of conspiracy theory about the power of the jewish lobby, too, as I recall.

Obama may politely tone it down in public, but considering his general favorable attitude towards even the most thuggish of muslim states and rude treatment of Benjamin Netanyahu, I am confident the president is in accordance with Jeremiah Wright’s belief that jews are nothing more than a greedy, war-mongering pox on the Earth. While I do not commit to the Pre-Millennialist idea abandoning Israel is a prelude to the end times, it certainly is not the way to continue receiving god’s blessings.

Nice timing regardless, Obama. You manage to aggravate pretty much everything without even trying, much less what you do on purpose.