I have a big concern over this frustrating theory.
It would seem to me that there are certain countries that appear to be attempting to orchestrate and start a world war to bring about the biblical Armageddon.
Many Christians believe that they are going to be "raptured" when it happens, and the world leader seems to have the full backing of evangelical Christianity to make it happen.
The pre-trib rapture people seem to think that if they can orchestrate the prophecy into a reality, then they can be "taken to heaven" as soon as it happens.
I feel that it is a dangerous theory that, exempts those who believe in it from the responsibility of caring for the Earth, and allows the rampant greed that exists in the world today.

A local atheist group was trying to get a party together during the last predicted "end of the world". They were wanting to fill blow up dolls with helium and release them to freak out the rapture believers. I don't know if they actually did it or not.

Christians forget, their goal is to be Christ-like, which is the same as Enlightenment or "No more suffering".

You may try:

1. With a command caring voice, ask them, Have you been Christ-like or seeking to be Christ-like? Have you committed blasphemy, been using God's name in vain to prevent others from knowing God? Have you been worshipping Money and Material things over the poor? "Giving money to a cause is not the same as connecting with someone who needs help" -paraphrased Mother Theresa.

2. Back at them... Are you sure you're prepared for the rapture? After all good deeds, you are still filthy in God's eye? Noah, Moses, Abraham, Jesus, etc were saved from destruction and they weren't Christians, they were Christ like. You may proclaim God all you want, are you really serving God or Money? You either stand with God or you're against him. The Greed driven soul-less Corporate entity is what revelation warns you about... so are you serving to help the poor or are you buying into material things from the soul-less corporate entities?

LOL... yeah... some of these phrases are a little out there, but so is Christianity.

Yes, quite silly. So is this:

[nakedpastor.com]

Complete fantasy...

It is not just silly. It is sheer lunacy! Anyone with half a mind who has ever read Revelations has to feel that the entire book was written by a demented lunatic.

Well written! It is amazing to me how the concept of the rapture so enraptures the religious. It is this type of concept that has brought Trump into power as the religious somehow think that he is fulfilling Christ’s prophesies and that if aramageddon was to come tomorrow then god would rapture them all up before this. The delusion and spell they live under under is hard for others to understand, but we see this type of thinking with smaller cults such as Waco or Jones town. The idea of the rapture is pure fantasy.

Jesus isn't coming back. People need to get over it. It's silly. Dooms day 3x this year, so the theists predicted. Lol. It's funny. I survived many raptures. Another check on my rapture card. Lol.

what is the rapture?

I've been waiting for the Rapture for a long time, to be finally rid of those loons.