Rapture – Failure or Fatal?

As I’m certain you’ve heard way too much about in the last few days, today is the apparent end of the world, where all non-believers will be stuck on Earth to die from earthquakes, violence and fire while the most devoted Christians will go to heaven and watch us suffer in excruciating pain. Now, in the UK, although it is still a long ways off being 6pm, and so I don’t know whether to find a shotgun to defend myself from an imminent zombie hoard, many of our Australian and New Zealand friends have notified that the Rapture has not interrupted their lives thus far, and is pretty non-existent. Brilliant for the billions of athiests/non-believers/Muslims/Hindus/Sikhs/Buddhists/Jews and for the future of the world as we know it, but not for those perfect, special Christians. “Cheer up, it’s not the end of the world” has never been more ironic nor appropriate since 1994, or the hundreds of other prophecies since that date that have all fallen flat on their face.