Christian Tik Tok prepares for the end times after a man in South Africa gives the exact date for the rapture (which has come and gone). That’s right, if you’re listening to this podcast… you are in hell. I’m sorry, boy.
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QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.
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Welcome to the QAA Podcast Premium Episode 306.
Rapture denied.
As always, we're your host, Jake Rogotansky.
Liv Agar.
And Travis View.
Elaine.
Now you had another date in mind.
According to my source, the end of the world will be on February 14th in the year 2016.
Valentine's Day.
Bummer.
Where'd you get your date, Ely?
I received this information from an alien.
As I told my husband, it was in the Paramus Holiday Inn.
I was having a drink at the bar alone.
And this alien approached me.
He started talking to me.
He bought me a drink.
And then I think he must have used some kind of array or a mind control device because he forced me to follow him to his room.
And that's where he told me about the end of the world.
So your alien had a room at the Holiday Inn.
Paramus.
It might have been a room on the spacecraft made up to look like a room at the Holiday Inn.
I can't be sure about that, Peter.
Of course not.
And that is the whole problem with aliens is you just can't trust them.
Occasionally you meet a nice one.
E.T. But usually they turn out to be some kind of big lizard.
That's all the time we've got for this week on World of the Psychic.
Next week, though, gimme Ira.
Hairless pets.
Weird.
Until then.
This is Peter Vick.
See you then.
Fantastic.
You hear something funny.
During my trip, I actually stayed in Paramus.
Um.
But uh it's the the holiday in is no longer standing.
It's now a comfort in.
That's so funny because there's a reason that Dan Ackeroyd and Harold Ramus put specifically uh the holiday in in Paramus into the movie.
So something must have happened there.
Yeah.
Folks, it brings me no joy to tell you that the rapture has come and gone.
For those of us who are still here, I'm sorry, boy.
But perhaps unsurprisingly, the hosts of the QAA podcast were not taken up to heaven, except for Annie, the best of all of us.
But there's also a good chance that the rapture, at least the one believed to be foretold in the New Testament, did not happen, and that the hell we are currently living in is man-made after all.
Now, I'm old enough now to have lived through a couple raptures.
Travis, you as well, I'm sure there was Y2K, which was kind of like a technological rapture that never really materialized.
Yeah, I do remember that.
I remember that there was like, yeah, lots of uh concern over that.
And um, yeah, but I think I think that's one of those things that was just avoided through knowing it was gonna happen and a lot of software updates.
I have a family member actually, uh, who was uh integral into helping the banks uh reset their inner programming so that the system would stay online in the year 2000.
Sorry, Julian isn't on the podcast to point this out, but you have a family who's big in with the banks, Jake.
Liv's face, like before she even said that turned into like the devil emoji.
Like instantly recognized like the absence of Julia.
Julian's not here, someone has to do it.
Embody the spirit of Julian for this episode.
So there was also, of course, 2012, the Mayan Rapture.
This also didn't really pan out, but at least we got a very entertaining John Q-Sack movie out of it.
That was my first real one because I was two in the 2000 one, and I was a little worried.
I was a little, I had, you know, anxious OCD.
Yeah.
That whole day was like a little like what I what's my answer right.
What's gonna happen?
Yeah, people were like, I I feel like you just can't get that anymore.
You can't convince that amount of people.
There's like no monoculture anymore.
Yeah, that's so true.
I wish we could convince everybody of one thing.
But this latest rapture prediction is on everyone's radar because, like, some guy essentially just said it was going to happen, specifically on September 23rd and 24th of this past week.
I wrote this episode uh at my personal computer at 9 30 p.m. on September 24th.
Uh, we were recording it on the following day.
So at the time of the writing, for the East Coast, the rapture has passed.
And for us West Coasters, we still have a chance for the next two hours or so, although clearly that didn't happen.
The claim went viral on TikTok.
According to Newsweek, as of Tuesday of this week, writing on Wednesday, there were over 321,000 posts on TikTok alone about the upcoming rapture, and probably an equal number of posts making fun of those people.
So who is this South African pastor that went viral on social media for his very specific, nearly imminent end times prophecy?
Well, I'm gonna tell you about them, and afterwards, Liv is going to bless us with TikTok's reaction to both the prophecy and its failure.
Before we get into Joshua himself and the consequences of making such a bold prediction with so very little time to grift off of it, which I always think is funny, Travis.
Like, you know, if you're gonna make a prophecy, at least give yourself a couple years to grift off of it, right?
A book, uh, you know, a channel, something like that.
But no, in this age of instant gratification, you know, people want their the rapture to happen soon, within the week.
You know, they'll get b they'll lose concentration, they'll get bored if you say it's gonna happen years into the future.
So I wanted to do a quick refresher on the idea of the rapture itself as a biblical concept.
I do this because I am Jewish and a glutton for making episodes more difficult than they need to be.
I don't think there's a rapture for Jews.
I think we're somehow part of the Christian rapture, maybe in a bad way.
Yeah, I don't think you're I'm not a Christian either, and I was not raised Christian, but I don't think you're going up with them.
Nick, I don't think so.
Somebody once said we were like the landing pad.
Like that we'll all be in Israel and like we we think we've won, but then we're just kind of like uh, you know, a soft landing pad for the Lord.
No, yeah, I think I think the job of the Jews is to like make the welcome party for Jesus, but you're not going up.
So what?
So what?
We could have like a couple hors d'oeuvres and then sort of just left behind.
Yeah, yeah, that's that's basically it.
I'll bet Christians are like, no, the Jews would they want to like rule over hell.
Like, that's what well, like they they can become the rulers there.
We'll go off to heaven.
It's like when the elves sort of go away to like their land where they live forever.
But I did some I did some research and I looked it up, and so the verb in Greek haparzo, meaning to seize or snatch up, was translated into Latin as rapturo.
It is from this that we get the English word rapture.
It's also raptor is to steal is a simple.
Oh.
Yeah.
Interesting.
But until a hundred years or so ago, the bulk of Christianity's mainstream teaching did not focus on a separate event in which believers are beamed up into heaven.
The concept of a separate pre-tribulation rapture was popularized in the 19th century by John Nelson Darby, an English evangelist and founder of the Plymouth Brethren.
Darby would later develop the idea of dispensational pre-millennialism, which systemized history into eras and put the rapture before a seven-year tribulation.
That's beautiful.
So it's it's the very Protestant thing of like if you believe, like you will be rewarded by God in this life as well.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, so his ideas had a major impact uh on the United States, first through an edition of the Schofield Reference Bible, which was published in 1909, which included dispensationalist footnotes below the biblical text.
And in the 20th century, the belief became enshrined in broad swaths of American evangelicalism.
Yeah, I think it really is interesting.
Like, if you grow up Christian, you are left with this idea that like, well, just rapture is just part of like, you know, uh normal Christian eschatology.
When really it's uh it's it wasn't invented in the United States, but is primarily an American evangelical concept.
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You're so right, Jake.
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Yes, we do.
And Travis is actually crying right now, I think, out of gratitude, maybe?
