>>The Rapture is when Jesus returns and takes all the fundies (HIS fundies) away to heaven, and shuts the door and won't let us in.<<

I think that works more in my favor than theirs. I'll stay right here, thanks. Fundies, don't let the doot hit you and all that rot. Have fun in heaven, never mind us back here. Forget you ever heard of us. Just rub your hands in glee at all the suffering we must be going through because we didn't listen to you.

The Rapture supposedly came from John Darby. Maybe he copped it from the hallucinating Scottish woman. Fundies often link it to Revelation but it is not there. It is in Thessalonians 4:15-17.

Paul seems to be describing something like an acid trip. He may have been describing his "vision" or series of such visions. Some think he might be describing an epileptic seizure which often has religious connotations for the afflicted. Again, yeah, maybe.

It's so strangely worded and so strange to begin with, no one could know what Paul was saying and it doesn't appear he was describing as he himself wished. Heavy acid trips do that. Trying to tell people what you experienced doesn't really capture it. Paul struck me as being quite perplexed about that. So how can anyone claim to be a follower of this passage? It doesn't lend itself to any kind of perception that but the most abstract.