{"id":4746,"date":"2022-11-22T11:26:07","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T16:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/christnewstoday\/?p=4746"},"modified":"2022-11-22T11:26:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T16:26:07","slug":"a-look-at-life-30-seconds-after-the-rapture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/christnewstoday\/2022\/11\/a-look-at-life-30-seconds-after-the-rapture.html","title":{"rendered":"A Look at Life 30 Seconds After the Rapture"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3175\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3175\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3175\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/409\/2022\/03\/solar-storm_credit-shutterstock56052.jpg\" alt=\"Solar Storm\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3175\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">End times expert Jeff Kinley and co-host Todd Hampson speculated openly about what the immediate effect of the Rapture will be on their &#8220;<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/player.edifi.app\/episodes\/Thirty-Seconds-After-the-Rapture\/5430501\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Prophecy Pros Podcast<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.&#8221; Kinley stated that 30 seconds after the Rapture will be a time of &#8220;shock, confusion, panic, terror and chaos&#8221; for nonbelievers. &#8220;You&#8217;re in a mall,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You&#8217;re at a football stadium. You&#8217;re on an airplane. You&#8217;re driving in a car. You&#8217;re walking down the street \u2026 school, wherever. And all of a sudden, scores of people just vanish from sight.&#8221; Hampson later noted that it will be a time of delayed clarity for those who have heard the Gospel but ignored its warnings. &#8220;There will be some people who are close enough to Christian teaching who will realize right off the bat, &#8216;Oh my gosh, this is the rapture that my sister was talking about, or my grandmother was telling me about or that I used to make fun of,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Both hosts pushed back against the idea that the Rapture is unbiblical and had previously <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/christnewstoday\/2022\/10\/end-times-author-takes-aim-at-cnns-assertion-some-christians-suffer-from-rapture-anxiety-the-rapture-is-really-designed-to-bring-comfort-not-anxiety.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">spoken out against<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0a CNN article that criticized end-time prophecies as causing &#8220;Rapture Anxiety&#8221; in current and former Christians. Although the word &#8220;Rapture&#8221; is not directly used in the Bible (the term comes from a Latin word meaning &#8220;carrying off&#8221;), the Greek word harpazo does, which also refers to &#8220;carrying off.&#8221; Kurt Willems of &#8220;The Theology Curator Podcast&#8221; has openly criticized the Rapture as a misunderstanding of the Bible. &#8220;What I&#8217;ve come to realize is that the church of my youth probably had the rapture all wrong,&#8221; he wrote in a\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thepangeablog\/2014\/06\/04\/why-the-rapture-isnt-biblical\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">blog post<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. &#8220;You see, the Bible flows from Creation (Gen 1-2) to Renewed Creation (Rev 21-22). This is the narrative of Scripture. Nothing in the text (if read in its proper context) alludes to the actual complete destruction of the planet. This world&#8217;s worth to the Creator runs deep, and because of this, the world as a whole ought to be intrinsically valuable to us.&#8221; Hampson and Kinley strongly disagreed with any view that took the Rapture as unbiblical. &#8220;[The Rapture] is a key aspect of the Lord&#8217;s return,&#8221; said Hampson. &#8220;Just like the first coming had two parts to it, the birth and then the ministry and the death and resurrection. So, too, the Lord&#8217;s return has two parts, and one of the ones that we wait for, Titus tells us, is &#8216;our blessed hope.&#8217; It&#8217;s the rapture. It&#8217;s something we&#8217;re supposed to be encouraged by.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Hampson noted that New Age circles are preemptively making excuses for a Rapture, saying, &#8220;In New Age teaching, for decades now, they have taught in various circles [and] in different forms \u2026 that there&#8217;s coming a time when all the people who are holding back progress will be taken from mother Earth or the universe will take them. [And that] the people that are taken are not taken to be with the Lord, but they&#8217;re taken out of here so that the world can finally rise to the level that it&#8217;s supposed to rise [and] that we&#8217;re holding them back. And eventually, the universe is going to answer.&#8221; He also noted that the confusion will lead to globalists taking over. &#8220;People are going to look for answers. \u2026 And I think there are evil people, globalists and others who will not hesitate for a second and realize this is the moment they&#8217;ve all been waiting for. This is the crisis that&#8217;s finally going to let them push everything over the edge,&#8221; he said. Both emphasized the continued need for evangelism, with Hampson saying, &#8220;So, it&#8217;s our job as believers now to keep telling people that because we don&#8217;t want anybody to experience it.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>End times expert Jeff Kinley and co-host Todd Hampson speculated openly about what the immediate effect of the Rapture will be on their &#8220;Prophecy Pros Podcast.&#8221; Kinley stated that 30 seconds after the Rapture will be a time of &#8220;shock, confusion, panic, terror and chaos&#8221; for nonbelievers. &#8220;You&#8217;re in a mall,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You&#8217;re 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