If you listen to, and believe

lots of Christians, you'd think the 'Rapture' was a Biblical truth, (in a book where 'literal' truth is already stretched kinda thin), BUT, what the faithful don't seem to understand is that the word 'rapture', and the entire concept was never mentioned by Jesus, and doesn't appear in the Bible. http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/06/opinion/parini-rapture-real/

 

The rapture notion goes like this: Jesus is coming back, and when he does, he will first return before a time of so-called tribulation begins, calling up into the clouds with him those who are "saved." Horrible suffering will then occur on the miserable Earth for seven years. Then Jesus will come yet again, for a final judging. There are many different versions of this scenario, so it's difficult to summarize. It's fair to say, however, that only fundamentalist Protestant churches bother to think about the rapture at all. (Catholics discount the idea completely.)

The rapture concept is relatively new. It started with an Anglo-Irish theologian, who in the 1830s invented the concept. This may come as a shocker to many, but it's a fact: Before John Nelson Darby imagined this scenario in the clouds, no Christian had ever heard of the rapture.

 

This doesn't stop those who are 'Certain' that it's gonna happen, AND, within their lifetimes, and if you don't believe it, you're 'lost'. Like I said earlier, when faith and evidence contradict each other, there's a certain segment that readily discards the 'evidence' part, cuz they 'know' what's real...