Why the Rapture Won’t Happen Anytime Soon
Wednesday, November 30th, 2005Adrienne over at the Liberty Belles posted an interesting statistic this morning, quoting from Vanity Fair:
With its highly figurative language, Revelation is subject to profoundly differing interpretations. Nevertheless, LaHaye’s followers insist on its literal truth and accuracy, and they have gone to great lengths to calculate exactly what this passage of Revelation means.
As we walk down from the top of the hill of Megiddo, one of them looks out over the Jezreel Valley. “Can you imagine this entire valley filled with blood?” he asks. “That would be a 200-mile-long river of blood, four and a half feet deep. We’ve done the math. That’s the blood of as many as two and a half billion people.”
She then responds:
But wait, if there are about 2 billion Christians worldwide, that means that that river will contain only slightly more than half the blood of the unsaved. Where’s the rest of that plasma going to go?
It gets worse: As of that time, (1) the Rapture will have happened, so those 2 billion are out of the picture, leaving some 4 billion unsaved to populate the earth and (2) A good deal more than half of those remaining people have been wiped out due to wars, plagues, “natural” disasters, and supernatural beings. And then don’t forget that the one-world government would be persecuting and killing the post-trib Christians (and people of other faiths unwilling to yield to the one world government).
The world population will probably have to double before the rapture can occur, just on the basis of the amount of blood needed to fill the Megiddo valley.
