I posted a video that contains a good debunking of the Rapture by New Testament scholar Barbara Rossing just over a year ago:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x278196">New Testament scholar Barbara Rossing debunks "the Rapture" (
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=278196&mesg_id=278370">Post 12 has a more detailed history of the 'Rapture' going back to its very beginning when Darby visited a young girl who was having 'visions' in Scotland in the 1830s, too)
I also did some research into this during the election. I found out a lot of really scary stuff about Plain's involvement with this lunatic movement while I was carrying out a campaign on Facebook against the Palin cult, I posted the results in a reply,
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=278196&mesg_id=278498">here. I'll post them here as well for easy access.
End-Times Prophecies and More: How Electing Sarah Palin Endangers Your Life UPDATEDhttp://tpzoo.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/end-times-prophecies-and-more-how-electing-sarah-palin-endangers-your-lifeSarah Palin's Extremist Religous Beliefs: The Republic is At Riskhttp://www.buzzflash.com/articles/interviews/126 Sarah Palin’s Churches and The Third Wave New Apostolic Reformation(Contains a huge amount of background info. and links)
(the video has been removed from youtube for some reason, but can be found on the Huffington Post link below...)
http://endtimespropheticwords.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/sarah-palins-churches-and-the-third-waveSarah Palin's Churches and The Third Wave: New Video Documentaryhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-wilson/sarah-palins-churches-and_b_124611.htmlSarah Palin, the pastor and the prophecy: judgment day is not far awayAlexi Mostrous in Wasilla, Alaska
At the Wasilla Assembly of God Church, Sarah Palin’s former pastor sees powerful signs that the end of the world is nigh.
Pastor Ed Kalnins cites conflict in the Middle East, America’s dependence on foreign oil and the depletion of energy reserves as evidence that “storm clouds are gathering”. He told The Times: “Scripture specifically mentions oil instability as a sign of the Rapture. We’re seeing more and more oil wars. The contractions of the fulfilment of prophecies are getting tighter and tighter.”
He declined to set an exact date for the Rapture, or the “End of Days” – the belief in a time when Jesus will return, raising up believers to Heaven and leaving the wicked to be ruled by the Antichrist – but hopes it will be in his lifetime. “I’m looking out the window and I can see it’s going to rain,” he said. “I’m just looking at the turmoil of the world, Iraq, other places – everywhere people are fighting against Christ.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article4720440.ece#cid=OTC-RSS=2015164The Politics of Tribulation - Sarah Palin and the RaptureBy Raymond J. Lawrence
http://www.counterpunch.org/lawrence09202008.html