Are You Rapture Ready?

I recently came across a reference in a book to “RaptureReady.com,” and The Rapture Index; I knew right then that I needed to share this with as many people as possible.

This description of The Rapture Index comes from the site: “You could say the Rapture index is a Dow Jones Industrial Average of end time activity, but I think it would be better if you viewed it as prophetic speedometer. The higher the number, the faster we’re moving towards the occurrence of pre-tribulation rapture.”

The Rapture Index is currently at 169 out of 225. It has increased every year for the past several, but still isn’t as high as it’s all-time high of 182 in September, 2001. The creator of this site describes his efforts as an attempt to decrease the arbitrariness involved in the study of prophetic activity that may signal the apocalypse.

Here are my top five observations about the Rapture Index:

1. Using diplomacy with Iran and getting them to open up their nuclear program looks like a definite precursor to the endtimes (see under the category of “leadership”).
2. There has been a “rash of crimes related to witchcraft.”
3. Global warming is not occuring.
4. Ecumenism deserves its own category to track those evil cooperative alliances between religious groups.
5. Under the category of “Beast Government” is this explanation for it’s 4 out of 5 rating: “EU p[ens a new treaty.” The EU is the beast government.

I hope you all enjoy RaptureReady.com. I really do wonder how many people believe in this type of eschatology and how many people follow sites like this for information about the pending apocalypse. I don’t mean to mock these people too much, but it does frighten me to think that very many of them could be in this country, voting, and even in the current administration.  But just in case they are right, are you rapture ready?