For many years my husband and I had a postcard stuck on our refrigerator door. I loved the image. Cars smashing, planes flying into buildings, little souls rising from their graves headed toward the big guy in the sky, his robe white and dress-like, similar to those of the small figures flying up to meet him. It was the Rapture. According to About.com.Christianity the Rapture is what happens when "True followers of Jesus Christ will be transformed into their spiritual bodies in the Rapture and taken from the Earth to be in Heaven with God. Non-believers will be left behind to face severe tribulation as the antichrist prepares to take his place ......How will the Rapture Occur? According to several verses in the Bible, believers will suddenly, without warning, disappear from Earth in the "twinkling of an eye." "
For years I've mulled over the idea that a group of people would believe that if they just followed the teachings of one person, in the "twinkling of an eye", all would be well. They would be among the chosen that would zoom right on up to heaven, avoiding all the confusion and misery of what was to follow. I've always known that I wouldn't be one of those fortunate people, but, really, who would want to belong to a group that would believe any of this? My Rapture puts a different spin on things. These followers of Jesus Christ are being tossed, helter skelter, to land, who knows where? Heaven? Maybe, maybe not. The beings left behind are the ones experiencing the true rapture, calm, but clearly filled with some kind of peace and presence.
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