When discussing the rapture happening before the second coming of Christ, I and II Thessalonians are familiar letters that find their way into the conversation. The word “rapture” itself is not in the ...

Some students of biblical prophecy are busy online stirring the pot of hysteria with strident proclamations that the first major event that sets the stage for the apocalyptic end of the world will ...

I grew up in an Evangelical church where dispensationalism was the method of biblical interpretation. For those not in the know, dispensationalism was devised by a Protestant preacher named John ...

Mike Gorman isn’t surprised that the internet is abuzz these days with an apocalyptic belief: that the universe as we know it is going to end no later than Wednesday. He has seen it before. Gorman, a ...

The Rapture is near — at least according to an apocalyptic prophecy by one South African man who says it will fall on Sept. 23 or 24. His claim has gone viral, with some believing it will mark the end ...

Ordained minister Rossing is ready to do battle with evangelicals both within and outside of her Lutheran Church camp. Rossing, who teaches New Testament at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago, ...

(RNS) — The end is near, again. Hysteria and mockery rained down in equal measure after a South African pastor proclaimed Tuesday (Sept. 23) as the day of the rapture, a reference to the doctrine that ...

“And a great portent appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars…” Detail of a stained glass window in the parish church of ...