
In case you didn’t know, the ‘Rapture’ is said to be happening from today (23 September). Yeah, creepy.
Some people have literally been going about selling their cars and quitting their jobs in anticipation, as essentially, believers reckon the world as we know it is all about to come to an end, thanks to the dream of a South African pastor.
Pastor Joshua Mhlakela says he had a revelation that Jesus would return on 23-24 September and come ‘to take my church’.
I mean, it’s not exactly the first time people have believed it’s all about to be over (I still remember people saying their goodbyes in the school corridors back in December 2012). But on this occasion, Mhlakela has got some believing that Christians are getting out of here.
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Although, it's worth pointing out that they don't all believe it.

What is the 'Rapture'?
Previously appearing on the CENTTWINZ TV YouTube channel, the Pastor claimed that Christ is coming and will be ‘rescuing the Christians out of the world’ today and tomorrow.
According to the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, there are two phases of Jesus Christ returning, which begins with this so feared Rapture.
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In Thessalonians 4:13-17, it states that: “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.”
And the pastor added that this Rapture is apparently upon us ‘whether you are ready or not’.
Those left behind, (basically those who don’t believe in Christ) will face a period of suffering on Earth before a second coming and the end of the world.

What did the Pastor say about the 'Rapture'?
The Pastor basically claimed he’s been having visions of this for years now as in ‘1026, 2017’ he saw Jesus ‘in a throne room’.
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“So I looked at Jesus he was sitting down and with his arms resting on the arms rest of the of the throne again without opening his mouth with his mind and I could hear him very loud and clear. He said to me, ‘I am coming soon,’” he claimed.
And in 2018, he apparently heard his voice again, saying: “There will be no World Cup 2026.”
Mhlakela continued: “He was speaking of the Men's Soccer World Cup because life on earth will not be business as usual for those who are left behind.”
The Pastor said he was given the date back in 2018 as he explained his vision then: “I'm looking at him and he says these words.
“From the time Israel became a nation in 1948, there will be 77 years to the Exodus. Now, he used the word ‘Exodus’, but he was talking about the rapture.
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“Okay. He's soon coming. Exactly. Yeah. Okay. Remember, I'm not dreaming. I'm looking at him telling you as he's talking without his mouth opened.
“Remember, he's speaking through his mind. Spirits. Yeah. He says to me, "On the 23 and the 24 of September, 2025, I will come to take my church.’”

The Pastor explained, importantly for a lot of us, what will happen to those left behind during the Rapture.
“In other words he's coming to take his own so which means the ones that are not in Christ they are remaining but they're going to remain in chaos. Basically, that's what he's saying. Let me finish up his message. After naming the 23 and the 24 of September, 2025 being the rapture day, he then says, ‘Then after there will be a seven years tribulation on earth on those left behind.’ And then he says, ‘On the 15 of September 2032, I will return to earth as king,’” he claimed.
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Within three months of the rapture, the Pastor says the ‘world would be an unrecognisable place’.
“The rapture would happen where millions of Christians all around the world, including South Afric,a will disappear in a split second," he added. "And after this great disappearance, after the removal of Christians in the world, then the judgment of God is going to fall upon the world for seven years.
"This is what will actually lead to the world ending before the return of Jesus to rule now on this earth in 2032 on the 15 of September."
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