Think I’m safe to say the rapture failed to happen again in the same way it did a couple of weeks ago, but don’t worry, the goalposts have already been moved again. To next week. Obviously.
There’s a Tiktok by this guy who made a bunch of videos about the rapture, but tonight I saw one by him in which he said he wasn’t fussed if it didn’t happen on the rescheduled date because this is a year of Jubilee, and apparently in a Jubilee year the final trumpet of the festival doesn’t get blown until the ninth day or something. Meaning that the rapture’s going to happen between the 15th and 17th. Obviously.
I have no idea if that latter detail is correct or not, cos I can’t find anything about it online, but that character’s right about one thing. It IS a Jubilee year.
I’m going to suggest that, since this fellow believes in the rapture, he’s not actually Catholic and probably comes from one of those American sects that considers Catholicism not just the wrong sort of Christianity but also un-Christian. And he’s probably even less enthused about THE JOOOOOOOOOOS which is where the idea of the Jubilee year originates. However, apparently it hasn’t been practised in Judaism for centuries, possibly not since 722 BC after the end of the Northern Kingdom. The Catholic church has been doing it since 1300, and I think it’s a somewhat different affair with them.
Either way… yeah, I don’t think this Jubilee year idea makes a lot of sense, but then again nothing about the rapture does, really. Mind you, I suppose that tying it to a Jewish feast makes slightly more sense than Jesus adhering to a calendar devised by pagans? I don’t know. In any case, something else to look forward to not happening next week…
