Hypothetical imperative of the rapture event

The rapture of the church will come at anytime by surprise and no one knows the day and the hour (Matthew 24:36) when it occurs.

Interestingly enough that the rapture event has a time involved in the disappearance of Christians in the twinkling of an eye.

“Behold I tell you a mystery; we shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed — in a moment in the twinkling of an eye at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed,” 1 Corinthians 15:51-52.

Someone has calculated the time duration of the twinkling of an eye of 110ms (0.110 second). It means that the disappearance of Christians is 110ms, which will be scheduled by God at anytime in his timetable.

In 1 Thessalonians 4:17 it says, “Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.”

Hypothesis 1: Are Christians visible during the rapture?

When our Lord Jesus was resurrected after three days, he appeared to his disciples inside the room where they gathered and the door was locked. He,then appeared to the two disciples on the Emmaus Road where they were talking about the things done by Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus appeared to them and he joined their conversations. Later on, as they were on the table, he took bread, blessed and broke it and gave to them. And their eyes were opened and they knew him, and he vanished from their sight (Luke 24:30, 31). He then appeared to his disciples again before he went to heaven.

Hypothesis 2: What would be distance from the earth as we meet the Lord up in the air?

Assuming that the rapture velocity is the speed of light of 186,000 miles per second and we will be taken by vertical takeoff, then the distance would be 20,400 miles at 100ms, or 186,000 miles at 1 second. If the rapture velocity is greater than the speed of light, then the assumption would be changed, depending the rapture velocity in the spiritual realm.

Hypothesis 3: Assuming that we would be visible during the rapture, what kind of equipment would be used in capturing the rapture?

High-end radar, satellite, real-time Google map, GPS technology, local computer database and central computer database would be used. High-end radar is the primary equipment to capture the rapture. It would show as dots with different sizes of dots. These dots will be analyzed and calculated by database with a high level of accuracy. Data will be stored to a local computer database and transmitted via satellite to three strategic locations: National Security Agency, Department of Defense and Homeland Security.

The local computer database would be interfaced with real-time Google maps, the satellite system and GPS technology to visualize actual locations of missing Christians in a particular address — including moving objects such as vehicles, planes and ships — and would include their latitudes and longitudes.

All missing persons would be determined for each town, city and state showing the map of the U.S. They would use three colors: red for missing, blue for those left behind and no color for unpopulated areas such as mountains and deserts.

We are all familiar with maps showing voting results, where the media would show the U.S. map of the winning states for Republicans and Democrats. If the size of the map is configured on one screen, then you could see one state if it is dominated by red or blue color. However, by using the 3D real-time Google map then you could see the likelihood of combinations of red, blue and no color.

Hypothesis 4: Is it possible to determine missing military and scientists?

Yes. This will determine how vulnerable they are, if the majority will be taken by the rapture. If this will be the case, then the U.S. military will be weakened and we would be open to attacks from the enemy.

Hypothesis 5: How soon would the president of the United States know the results from central computer database?

Within 10 minutes after the rapture. The central computer database from National Security Agency, Department of Defense and Homeland Security has dedicated hotlines to the White House informing the president the casualties of the rapture.

Hypothesis 6: Shall the president inform the public everything he will see via central computer database?

For the national and international security perspective, I offer conjecture that he would not report everything he would get from central computer database.

If the president is taken by the rapture, then the vice president will make an announcement. If the vice president will be missing also, then the next in rank has to make an announcement to the public.

Hypothesis 7: Is there any panic mode for those left behind?

I conjecture that it would create chaos and major disasters in the U.S. and other countries. People will be losing their loved ones and they do not know what really happen about the rapture.

Professing Christians who will be left behind will come into their senses to follow the Lord Jesus wholeheartedly, no matter what happens. It would cause them to be beheaded (Revelation 20:4) by the Antichrist if they will not receive the mark to be embedded in their right arms or foreheads (Revelation 13: 16, 17).

Hypothesis 8: What if all Christians will be invisible during the rapture?

You cannot capture the rapture. This is the reason that this article is a hypothetical imperative with eight hypotheses.

Conclusion:

Now you are all inform that the rapture would happen at anytime and no one knows the day and the hour and Christians could disappear in 100ms time slot either visible or invisible.

Nauru Weah is a Palmer resident.

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