Users expect the end of the world in September

“Rapture”

Tikok users convinced of the impending end of the world

Evangelical Tiktokers announce the impending “rapture” of the believers. It is not the first time that users on social media were convinced of the end of the world.

The end is close, or depending on when you read this may even have occurred. At least evangelical TikTok users are convinced of this. Because they believe that the so -called rapture, rapture, will take place on September 23 or 24 September.

The rapture denotes the day when God brings all the true believers into heaven, while everyone else is left behind. The people left back must suffer from the rule of the Antichrist for seven years before God heralds the latest court. Most Christian faith communities strictly reject the concept of rapture because there are no references to such an event in the Bible. However, in some evangelical currents, especially in the USA, this concept is an essential part of belief in faith.

Therefore, for Tyler Huckabee, editor at the Christian magazine “Sojourners”, it is no wonder that the fear of the impending rapture by social media is always haunted. “This is by no means my first rodeo when it comes to a certain current of Christian theology, which puts rumors about the end of the world into the world and thus sparkes a fire,” said Huckabee in an interview with the British “Guardian”. “Facebook definitely had that, Twitter also had it, but for Tikkok it is the first ‘doom of the world’.” The end of the world this time was predicted in June by South African preacher Joshua Mhlakela in his podcast.

Reports on the “rapture” are flourishing, especially in troubled times, explains religious scientist Matthew Gabriele from Virginia Tech University to the “Guardian”. Believing Christians were looking for the look when the chosen ones were saved – typically when the world situation appeared “really bad”. Political violence, economic uncertainty or diseases are classic motifs in apocalyptic writings.

There is often talk of the “end of times” on social networks – as a description of a reality full of pandemic, natural disasters and violence. The murder of Charlie Kirk was recently built into these interpretations: Some users speculate on Tikok that the right activist could resurate as a martyr during the rapture.

On Tikkok, users and the Hashtag “Rapturetok” share how they prepare for the approaching rapture or give survival tips for those who are left behind. There are already more than 320,000 posts with this hashtag. But not all of them take the impending end seriously.

Some users try to convince the believers to leave their valuables to them, since they no longer have any use for them. In another video that takes the rapture hysteria on the shovel, a woman advises to hoarding video cassettes from the film Shrek, as this will be the only legitimate means of payment after the rapture.