The rapture is uh... described in the
Bible in 
1st Thessalonians
uh... chapter four, verses sixteen and 
seventeen
as being when Jesus Christ comes back to
earth
and takes up his church to heaven.
And the church is all the people that are
believers in him and not the buildings.
22% of Americans
claim to be certain that
Jesus is going to come back to earth and
judge the living and the dead sometime in
the next fifty years.
Another 22% think he probably will
That's 44% of the electorate
who are basically convinced that he's
coming back
in their lifetime
Personally, i think it's going to happen
within my lifetime
I'm forty seven now and
if I live a normal life then that would
be in the next twenty or thirty years
Now when you unpack
what that conviction entails, it is
perfectly maladaptive to
planning for a sustainable future for
the human race
It's not... it's maladaptive
certainly
when it comes time to avoid
global conflict because by the
likes of of these prophecies, global
conflict is actually the precursor to
Jesus coming back
Hearing.. uh.. different uh...
Bible scholars saying that things that
are going on in the world today
pretty much everything has happened, that
the Bible said
has to happen
before the return of Jesus Christ. So if
it's all happening, we're pretty much
uh.. ready to go
at any moment
It really is not an exaggeration to say
that there is some significant
percentage of the american electorate
which if they turned on their television
today and saw that a mushroom cloud had
replaced Jerusalem
they would see a silver lining in that
cloud. About six years ago, I, upon
inspiration by God, i believe
I started a website called raptureletters.com
the website
is provided for people that
have spoken with their relatives
and loved ones about
the kingdom of heaven
and uh... haven't been able to witness
to them properly or they just weren't
convinced of anything so
They can go on our website and put a name
and email address
and the people will get sent
a letter after the rapture takes
place the letter will hopefully
provide some comfort to those people who
receive it and uh... let them know their
loved ones are in heaven now and
it also gives them a message
allows them to say a prayer
to become
saved and
hopefully uh... get into heaven themselves
Insofar as people like that
elects our..
our presidents and
and congressmen
and insofar as they get elected as
presidents and congressmen
it's a terribly
dangerous state of affairs. You'll have
someone make up a fake quote
or misrepresent a document...
...misrepresent the evidence.  Then they'll put it on
a website or put in a book that's
published by
what people think is respectable
publisher
and then hundreds, thousands of
Christians will read this and believe it
because they assume, "Oh this guy wouldn't lie...
...he would have made this stuff up." And so
they go and repeat it and so you get
the lie repeated many times, mostly by
people who aren't lying, who really do think
it's true, but they just didn't check.
"101 Last Days Prophecies"
Just some of the things that are
supposed to happen. Literal Babylon...
...formerly called
Babble...
...would re-emerge
..in the land of Shinar. The land of Shinar is known as modern-day iraq
and
Saddam Hussein spent
over twenty years
rebuilding... umm..
literal Babylon
As a matter of fact, I heard he had Maddona come in to christen it.
Faith really is a conversation stopper. When somebody says its my faith that soul is..
...that life is sacred and and
god creates life and man should not meddle in it
in it
and that really stops the conversation
There's no..  you... you can't
challenge someone further
and treat them
as though they're drawing their ethics
out of "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey", which is
really what i think we should be able to
do and when
when the President of The United States says, "I plan to appoint..
common-sense judges who know
that our rights are derived from God."
I think someone in the White House press
corps should be able to stand up and say
"How is that different from thinking you're
going to appoint common-sense judges
who think our rights are derived from Zeus?"
And that's clearly an impertinent
question, but it's a totally reasonable question.
Unfortunately it
says in the bible that there will be a
multitude of people
that
go to heaven after the rapture
as well as the one hundred and forty
four thousand male virgin Jews.
the multitude will be wearing white
robes it's mentioned in the book of
revelation
and the number is too numerous to count, it
says
but those people are also martyred. Most
of them will lose their heads over their
faith.
So, it's much better to accept Jesus as
your savior now and get taken up
in the rapture than it would be to wait
till afterwards and have to lose your
head over something like that.
You know.. here's the thing about Scott
I like him...
He's a nice guy. He's a productive
member of his community. He's a
contractor with his own business. He
supports his wife and kids.
He's not crazy. 
At least, I hope he's not, because I used to
believe the same things.
