What is happening? Where is common sense? Deception is rampant. Online lurkers look to lure and lead you to line up with their latest illusion. Besides attempting to rewrite history, some are taking a stab at staging future events as science fiction!

The topic: the Rapture. The Apostle Paul described the event this way. “For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever” (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 NIV). In a blink, all true believers will be gone from this earth and in the presence of Jesus.

What will those left on earth think happened? How will it be spun in the media? What could be a possible explanation?

Some people left behind will be familiar enough with Scripture to identify the global mass exodus of Christians as the Rapture. Others will believe the ridiculous, perhaps a hint of the tale I heard spun—that those missing Christians were abducted by aliens in order to reset their misguided brains.

Wow! Some people will believe anything! And we shouldn’t be surprised. Hear Paul’s warnings:

• “Evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived” (2 Timothy 3:13 ESV).
• “Don’t let anyone capture you with empty philosophies and high-sounding nonsense that come from human thinking and from the spiritual powers of this world, rather than from Christ” (Colossians 2:8 NLT). 

Instead, “Stand your ground, putting on the belt of truth” (Ephesians 6:14 NLT).

Let’s be seekers and speakers of truth … and ready to rise!