Rapture Ready
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Rapture Ready is one of the largest and oldest Evangelical Christian websites on the Internet. It was founded in 1987 by Todd Strandberg and prophecy author Terry James. Rapture Ready is dedicated to the idea that the Rapture will soon occur. Rapture Ready has been featured by the news media, both in the United States and in Europe, in print, such as in Time Magazine, and on television news channels such as CNN.
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[edit] Purpose
Rapture Ready's stated purposes include warning those non-Christians who, according to the Pre-tribulation system of Evangelical Christian eschatology, will be left behind after the rapture that they still have hope in Jesus Christ if they repent of their sins and turn to God through Jesus Christ his Son. It also has as a stated purpose to explain what will happen during the period of time after the rapture including the seven-year period commonly known as Daniel's 70th Week, Jacob's Time of Trouble or The Tribulation Period which terminates with the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
To help the site survive the crush of traffic that it is assumed will follow the Rapture it has a number of mirror sites that include raptureme.com, tribulation.us, rr-rapture.com, raptureready.net, and anti-antichrist.com.
The site was featured prominently in a Time magazine article about the growing belief in the Rapture.
Rapture Ready is mainly written in English; however, it also contains articles in Spanish, German, French, and Japanese. The site takes a Gap Creationism origins stance. [1]
[edit] Website features
- The Rapture Index keeps track of activities which could accelerate the Rapture; it includes a numerical measurement of world events and trends in light of conservative Christian views on Bible prophecy regarding the end times. This index lists a number of events and subjects, comments thereon, their influence (in points) and statistics of highs and lows by years and records.
- Nearing Midnight is a weekly commentary on world events
- The Rapture Ready Message Board is a tightly moderated, internet forum for discussion and comment on the end times, and general issues of Fundamentalist Christian concerns. Compared with other forums, the board's rules are strict and a large proportion of users have been at the receiving end of disciplinary actions from the moderators that would not have warranted moderator responses on most other internet forums.[citation needed] Some Christian denominations are not considered Christian by the Rapture Ready Message Board moderators including the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, Latter Day Saint movement (Mormonism, or the Latter Day Saint Church), Watchtower Society, Seventh-day Adventist Church and others [2].
- A number of articles on Christian-related topics
